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Scott Bruhn
Men's Basketball

Huskers to Make 21 National TV Appearances in 2025-26

Nebraska will make a minimum of 21 national television appearances during the regular season, as the Big Ten Conference and its broadcast partners announced its 2025-26 schedule Wednesday.  All 31 regular-season games and both exhibition games will be available on at least one TV or streaming outlet.

Today’s announcement also includes the start times for every game in the 2025-26 season.

Nebraska will make an appearance on FOX as the regular-season finale against Iowa will be carried by the network. In addition, the Huskers are slated to appear six times on FS1, beginning with the Dec. 7 matchup with Creighton. NU will be on FS1 five times in Big Ten play, including home matchups with Purdue (Feb. 10) and Illinois (Feb. 1) and road games at Ohio State (Jan. 5), Minnesota (Jan. 24) and UCLA (March 3).

BTN will have the Huskers a minimum of 14 times during the season starting with the Nov. 25 game against Winthrop. In all, the network will carry three non-conference games and 11 of the 20 Big Ten matchups. In addition, the network could add a pair of non-conference games on Nov. 8 (Florida International) and Nov. 15 (vs. Oklahoma) depending on the network’s football selections that day.

All of the games carried on FOX, FS1 and BTN will be streamed on the Fox Sports and the Fox One apps.

On the streaming side, NU will make five appearances on Peacock, beginning with the two games at the Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City on Nov. 20-21. In Big Ten play, the streaming service will carry NU’s games against at Illinois (Dec. 13), Michigan State (Jan. 2) and at Michigan (Jan. 27).

Nebraska will also make four appearances on B1G+, beginning with the exhibition opener against BYU on Oct. 18. The Huskers’ opener against West Georgia (Nov. 3) will be steamed, as well the matchups with Maryland-Eastern Shore (Nov. 11) and South Carolina Upstate (Nov. 29).

Single-game tickets start at just $15 for select non-conference games while Starting 5 mini plans priced at $80 are now on sale by visiting Huskers.com/Tickets or calling the Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office at 800-8-BIGRED during business hours (9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Mon.-Fri.).

2025-26 Nebraska Men’s Basketball Schedule (as of Oct. 7)

Date

Opponent

Television/Internet

Time (Central)

Sat., Oct. 18

BYU (Exhibition)

B1G+

Noon

Mon., Oct. 27

Midland (Exhibition)

B1G+

6:30 p.m.

Mon., Nov. 3

West Georgia

B1G+

7 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 8

Florida International

BTN or B1G+ ^

Noon

Tues., Nov. 11

Maryland-Eastern Shore

B1G+

7 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 15

vs. Oklahoma (at Sioux Falls, S.D.)

BTN or B1G+ ^^

6 p.m.

at Hall of Fame Classic (Kansas City, Mo.)

Thurs., Nov. 20

vs. New Mexico

Peacock

6 p.m.

Fri., Nov. 21

vs. Kansas State or Mississippi State

Peacock

6/8:30 p.m.

Tues., Nov. 25

Winthrop

BTN

7:30 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 29

South Carolina Upstate

B1G+

1 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 7

Creighton

FS1

4 p.m.

Wed., Dec. 10

Wisconsin *

BTN

8 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 13

at Illinois *

Peacock

3 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 21

North Dakota

BTN

7 p.m.

Tues., Dec. 30

New Hampshire

BTN

8 p.m.

Fri., Jan. 2

Michigan State *

Peacock

8 p.m.

Mon., Jan. 5

at Ohio State *

FS1

 

5:30 p.m.

Sat., Jan. 10

at Indiana *

BTN

11 a.m.

Tues., Jan. 13

Oregon *

BTN

8 p.m.

Sat., Jan. 17

at Northwestern *

BTN

 3 p.m.

Wed., Jan.  21

Washington *

BTN

8 p.m.

Sat., Jan. 24

at Minnesota *

FS1

11 a.m.

Tues., Jan.  27

at Michigan *

Peacock

6 p.m.

Sun., Feb. 1

Illinois *

FS1

3 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 7

at Rutgers *

BTN

11 a.m.

Tues., Feb. 10

Purdue *

FS1

6 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 14

Northwestern *

BTN

Noon

Tues., Feb. 17

at Iowa *

BTN

8 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 21

Penn State *

BTN

1 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 25

Maryland *

BTN

6 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 28

at USC *

BTN

3 p.m.

Tues., March 3

at UCLA *

FS1

10 p.m.

Sun., March 8

Iowa *

FOX

4 p.m.

Bold - Home Games; All times listed are Central
^-Broadcast channel announced by Nov. 2; ^^-Broadcast channel announced by Nov. 9