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At the end of July, we learned that Purdue would face Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Rutgers, and Wisconsin twice, with home games against Penn State, Nebraska, Northwestern, and Ohio State, and road games against IU, Illinois, Michigan State, and Iowa. Today, the Big Ten released the full conference schedule, completing Purdue’s schedule for the year.
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The December 3rd game against Northwestern will fall on the same weekend as Mackey’s 50th anniversary. Additionally, the conference announced that conference games would occur throughout the whole week. Traditionally, conference games were not played on Mondays or Fridays regularly.
Here’s Purdue’s full regular season schedule (conference games in italics, home games in bold):
-Nov. 10th: SIU-Edwardsville
-Nov. 12th: Chicago State
-Nov. 14th: at Marquette (Gavitt Games)
-Nov. 18th: Fairfield
-Nov. 22nd: Tennessee (Battle 4 Atlantis)
-Nov. 23rd: Villanova OR Western Kentucky (Battle 4 Atlantis)
-Nov. 24th: Arizona OR NC State OR Northern Iowa OR SMU (Battle 4 Atlantis)
-Nov. 28th: Louisville (B1G/ACC Challenge)
-Dec. 1st: at Maryland
-Dec. 3rd: Northwestern
-Dec. 7th: Valparaiso
-Dec. 10th: IUPUI
-Dec. 16th: Butler (Crossroads Classic)
-Dec. 21st: Tennessee State
-Dec. 30th: Lipscomb
-Jan. 3rd: Rutgers
-Jan. 6th: Nebraska
-Jan. 9th: at Michigan
-Jan. 13th: at Minnesota
-Jan. 16th: Wisconsin
-Jan. 20th: at Iowa
-Jan. 25th: Michigan
-Jan. 28th: at Indiana
-Jan. 31st: Maryland
-Feb. 3rd: at Rutgers
-Feb. 7th: Ohio State
-Feb. 10th: at Michigan State
-Feb. 15th: at Wisconsin
-Feb. 18th: Penn State
-Feb. 22nd: at Illinois
-Feb. 25th: Minnesota