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Complete Big 5 Women’s Basketball Schedule Announced For 2025-26 Season

PHILADELPHIA – The schedule for the 2025-26 Big 5 women's basketball campaign was announced on Thursday morning.
 
For the second consecutive year, all six of the city's NCAA Division I women's basketball programs have been split into two pods of three teams. Each team will play the others in their pod at on-campus sites in a round-robin format. From those games, the schedule will be set for a tripleheader at Villanova's Finneran Pavilion on Sunday, Dec. 7 with the first seed in each pod competing for the Big 5 championship, the second-place teams in each pod competing for third place, and the third seeds competing for fifth place.
 
For the 2025-26 season, one pod will feature Drexel, Penn, and Saint Joseph's while the other pod features La Salle, Temple, and Villanova.
 
Villanova's first pod game will come on Nov. 22 as it hosts Temple. The 'Cats will then hit the road for a Nov. 25 contest at La Salle.
 
Please note, ticket information for Big 5 tripleheader at Finneran Pavilion will be announced at a later date.
 
2025-26 Philadelphia Big 5 Women's Basketball Schedule
(All game times TBA by host school)

Pod 1
  Wednesday, Nov. 12 – Penn at Drexel
  Monday, Nov. 24 – Saint Joseph's at Penn
  Saturday, Nov. 29 – Drexel at Saint Joseph's
Pod 2
  Friday, Nov. 14 – La Salle at Temple
  Saturday, Nov. 22 – Temple at Villanova
  Tuesday, Nov. 25 - Villanova at La Salle
Big 5 Women's Classic
  Sunday, Dec. 7 at Finneran Pavilion (Villanova), game times TBA
 
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