2025-26 Women’s Basketball Schedule<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\nEastern Illinois women’s basketball will have several different faces on the roster this season as second year head coach Marqus McGlothan<\/a> released the Panthers complete schedule for 2025-26.
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\nThe release accompanies the Ohio Valley Conference portion of the schedule which was released in late July.
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\nEIU will play two open exhibition games this season hosting Illinois Wesleyan on Thursday, October 23 before playing at UIC on Tuesday, October 28.
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\nThe regular season opener for 2025-26 will be at home as one of two non-conference regular season contests at Groniger Arena.\u00a0 EIU will host Drake on Monday, November 3 for the Kid’s Day Game with a 12 pm start.\u00a0\u00a0 The Panthers other home non-conference contest will be with North Dakota State on Thursday, December 11.
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\nFollowing the season opener EIU plays two games each in Indiana and Michigan with games at Purdue (Nov. 6), Indiana State (Nov. 11), Michigan State (Nov. 20) and Central Michigan (Nov. 22).\u00a0\u00a0 The month wraps up with EIU playing the Louisville MTE on Thanksgiving weekend with games against Louisville (Nov. 28), Bellarmine (Nov. 29) and East Tennessee (Nov. 30).
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\nThe Panthers have two additional road non-conference games in December playing at Illinois State on Dec. 6 and Butler on Dec. 14.
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\nEIU opens OVC play on Thursday, December 18 hosting SIUE before a Sunday OVC game at home against Lindenwood prior to the holiday break.
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\n2025-26 EIU Women’s Basketball Schedule
\nOct. 23 \u2013 Illinois Wesleyan (exhib.)
\nOct. 28 \u2013 at UIC (exhib.)
\nNov. 3 \u2013 Drake \u00a0(Kid’s Day Game)
\nNov. 6 \u2013 at Purdue
\nNov. 11 \u2013 at Indiana State
\nNov. 20 \u2013 at Michigan State
\nNov. 22 \u2013 at Central Michigan
\nNov. 28 \u2013 at Louisville
\nNov. 29 \u2013 at Bellarmine
\nNov. 30 \u2013 vs. East Tennessee (at Louisville)
\nDec. 6 \u2013 at Illinois State
\nDec. 11 \u2013 North Dakota State
\nDec. 14 \u2013 at Butler
\nDec. 18 \u2013 SIUE *
\nDec. 21 \u2013 Lindenwood *
\nJan. 1 \u2013 at Southeast Missouri *
\nJan. 3 \u2013 at UT Martin *
\nJan. 8 \u2013 Tennessee Tech *
\nJan. 10 \u2013 Tennessee State *
\nJan. 13 \u2013 Western Illinois *
\nJan. 15 \u2013 at Little Rock *
\nJan. 22 \u2013 at Southern Indiana *
\nJan. 24 \u2013 at Morehead State *
\nJan. 29 \u2013 at UT Martin *
\nJan. 31 \u2013 at Southeast Missouri *
\nFeb. 5 \u2013 at Tennessee State *
\nFeb. 7 \u2013 at Tennessee Tech *
\nFeb. 10 \u2013 at Western Illinois *
\nFeb. 14 \u2013 Little Rock *
\nFeb. 19 \u2013 Morehead State *
\nFeb. 21 \u2013 Southern Indiana *
\nFeb. 25 \u2013 at Lindenwood *
\n\u00a0Feb. 27 \u2013 at SIUE *
\nMar. 4-7 \u2013 OVC Tournament *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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