{"id":95447,"date":"2025-08-19T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95447\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:21:09","slug":"mac-reigning-champs-release-2025-26-wbb-non-conference-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95447\/","title":{"rendered":"MAC Reigning Champs Release 2025-26 WBB Non-Conference Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUNCIE, Ind. &#8211; The reigning Mid-American Conference regular season and tournament champion Ball State women&#8217;s basketball team has revealed its 2025-26 non-conference schedule. The announcement was made Tuesday, Aug. 19 by 14th-year head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/brady-sallee\/1592\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1592\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Sallee<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Cardinals will tip-off the season with an exhibition game in Worthen Arena on Oct. 29 against IU East at 6:30 pm ET.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBall State&#8217;s regular season opener will be on the road as part of the third-annual Mid-American Conference Sun Belt Challenge as the Cardinals travel to Arkansas State on Nov. 3. Ball State remains on the road for its next contest when it heads south on I-69 to play in-state rival IU Indy (Nov. 9).\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Cardinals highly anticipated home opener will be a contest against Northern Kentucky on Nov. 12, before Ball State hits the road again for a game versus Memphis (Nov. 15).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBall State will then welcome Cincinnati (Nov. 20) and Illinois-Chicago (Nov. 24) prior to Thanksgiving break where the Cardinals will compete at a neutral site tournament in Naples, Fla. (Nov. 28-29).\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter that, Ball State opens the month of December with a contest against Oakland City (Dec. 3) before closing out non-conference play at Davidson (Dec. 7), at Louisville (Dec. 10) and at South Dakota State (Dec. 14).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJust like in years past, Sallee and his staff have put together a challenging non-conference schedule which features four teams that competed in the 2025 NCAA Tournament; Arkansas State, Cincinnati, Louisville and South Dakota State.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Mid-American Conference schedule is set to be released Thursday, August 21, at 11 am ET.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0season tickets now on sale, this is your chance to secure the best seats in the house to witness every moment of the journey. Make sure you don&#8217;t miss a moment of the action and get your tickets by visiting the link <a href=\"https:\/\/am.ticketmaster.com\/bsuathletics\/buy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BUY TICKETS<\/a> or by calling 888.BSU.TICKET.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUNCIE, Ind. &#8211; The reigning Mid-American Conference regular season and tournament champion Ball State women&#8217;s basketball team has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-95447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}