EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball released its 2025-26 non-conference schedule, beginning November 3 with a home matchup against Franklin College and concluding December 22 with a road contest at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Overall, USI will host 15 home dates at Liberty Arena, home of the Screaming Eagles, this year with five non-conference home games and 10 during the Ohio Valley Conference schedule, which was announced at the end of July.
“Every year, our goal is to create a schedule that will prepare us for an extremely tough 20-game OVC season!” USI Women’s Basketball Head Coach Rick Stein stated. “No question that we have put together one of the toughest schedules that we could find, which includes a solid balance of home and away games.”
Following the November 3 home opener to tip off the season, USI will host Murray State University on November 7. The Eagles’ first road game will be on November 12 at Saint Louis University. USI captured wins against both the Racers and Billikens last season.
Southern Indiana returns to Liberty Arena for back-to-back home games against Indiana University East (November 17) and Fisk University (November 25). USI will piggyback the two straight home contests with consecutive road games at Northern Kentucky University (November 30), which USI also defeated last year, and at East Tennessee State University (December 6).
While a home game against Middle Tennessee State University on December 14 will lead the Screaming Eagles into the first weekend of OVC play on December 18 and 20, USI will officially conclude its non-conference schedule with a trip on December 22 to face the Lady Volunteers of Tennessee.
“I am very excited again for our fans to have five non-conference home games in November and December to see our team play early in the season,” Stein added. “Plus, as always, we did not shy away from great competition at home or on the road, where we will travel to Saint Louis, Northern Kentucky, East Tennessee State, and the University of Tennessee. We built this schedule to be at our best for our home Ohio Valley Conference openers on December 18 and December 20.”
As announced previously by the Ohio Valley Conference, the home portion of the OVC schedule features the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (December 18), Morehead State University (December 20), Southeast Missouri State University (January 8), the University of Tennessee at Martin (January 10), Eastern Illinois University (January 22), Western Illinois University (January 24), Lindenwood University (January 29), Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (January 31), Tennessee State University (February 12), and Tennessee Tech University (February 14).
This season’s conference road bill is SIUE (January 1), Lindenwood (January 3), Tennessee Tech (January 15), Tennessee State (January 17), UT Martin (February 5), Southeast Missouri (February 7), Western Illinois (February 19), Eastern Illinois (February 21), Morehead State (February 24), and Little Rock (February 28).
In the history of the USI Women’s Basketball program, the Eagles are 104-112 all time against the 2025-26 schedule (8-3 vs. Franklin; 2-5 vs. Murray State; 3-5 vs. Saint Louis; 20-38 vs. Northern Kentucky; 0-2 vs. Middle Tennessee; 3-4 vs. Little Rock; 5-1 vs. Morehead State; 31-25 vs. SIUE; 9-1 vs. Lindenwood; 6-12 vs. Southeast Missouri; 3-3 vs. UT Martin; 2-5 vs. Tennessee Tech; 4-3 vs. Tennessee State; 3-5 vs. Eastern Illinois; 5-0 vs. Western Illinois).
