The Big Ten released Maryland men’s basketball’s conference schedule Thursday, finalizing its full 2025-26 campaign.
The Terps’ 30-game regular season begins with a neutral site matchup against Coppin State at Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena on Nov. 3 — part of the Naismith Hall of Fame Series.
Maryland hosts Georgetown on Nov. 7 in its home opener and will play Marquette in Wisconsin Nov. 15 as the Terps’ first true road test of the season.
The third-ever meeting with the Golden Eagles comes on the back end of a home-and-home series. Maryland fell 74-78 to Marquette at Xfinity Center in last year’s contest.
A Thanksgiving week trip to Las Vegas for the Players Era Championship tournament headlines Maryland’s nonconference slate.
The Terps, led by first-year coach Buzz Williams and a revamped roster, will play UNLV on Nov. 24 and Gonzaga Nov. 25.
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Maryland opens conference play at Iowa on Dec. 6 and then returns to College Park for a Big Ten home-opener with Michigan — the Terps’ last conference game until January.
Michigan, one of the Big Ten’s projected frontrunners, hauled in the third-best transfer portal class in the country, reported ESPN. The Terps will look to get revenge after a one-point loss to the Wolverines at last season’s conference tournament.
The 2026 Big Ten tournament will expand to include all 18 teams after only having 15 qualifying teams participate last season.
Maryland closes out 2025 with a trip to Virginia on Dec. 20 before hosting Old Dominion on Dec. 28 — the last two nonconference games of the regular season. The Terps will stay home for matchups against Oregon and Indiana in the first week of the new year.
January will close out with a challenging pair of road contests starting with Illinois on Jan. 21. Maryland enters the match having won eight of the last 10 meetings against the Fighting Illini.
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The two-game road trip concludes in East Lansing three days later against Michigan State — a team led by coach Tom Izzo that returns more than half of its roster.
The Spartans sported the fourth-highest defensive rating in the nation last season, according to KenPom. Maryland has lost its last seven matchups against Michigan State, a streak dating back to 2021-22.
The Terps host Purdue on Feb. 1, the first game of the spring academic semester. Despite losing four of its last five matchups against the Boilermakers, Maryland has won four of the five most recent meetings played in College Park.
After spending much of the first half of the season at home, four of Maryland’s final seven regular season games are away. The Terps will close out the regular season at Xfinity Center March 8 against Illinois in a game that could have major postseason implications.
