The Ohio State men’s basketball team will face Iowa, Penn State and rival Michigan twice during the 2026-27 Big Ten season.
In an 18-team league that features a 20-game slate, all Big Ten teams face three teams both home and on the road, seven teams solely on the road and seven solely at home. For the Buckeyes, that will mean playing home-and-home series with the Hawkeyes, Nittany Lions and Wolverines.
Ohio State will host Maryland, Michigan State, Northwestern, Oregon, Rutgers, Washington and Wisconsin this year. The Buckeyes will face Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Purdue, UCLA and USC on the road.
The games at UCLA and USC will constitute the team’s trip to the West Coast. Last season, the Buckeyes went to Washington and Oregon and hosted the Bruins and Trojans.
The home-and-home series with the Wolverines is something both Ohio State coach Jake Diebler and Michigan coach Dusty May publicly lobbied for as a protected rivalry.
Ohio State, like most teams, is still finalizing its roster for the 2026-27 season. The Buckeyes most recently added freshman Vuk Lazarevic, a 7-foot-1 center from Serbia, to the mix for third-year coach Jake Diebler.
In the nonconference, Ohio State has games lined up against BYU in Salt Lake City on Nov. 2, at UConn on Nov. 13, at Notre Dame (date not yet announced) and against Kansas in the CBS Sports Classic in New York City on Dec. 19. The rest of the nonconference schedule is to be announced.
The same goes for dates, times and broadcast information for the Big Ten schedule. Those details are unlikely to be finalized for several months.
Ohio State men’s basketball beat writer Adam Jardy can be reached at ajardy@dispatch.com, on Bluesky at @cdadamjardy.bsky.social or on Twitter at @AdamJardy.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Big Ten 2026-27 pairings revealed for Ohio State basketball