And we’ve got CHANGES, with the league dropping to 16 games as well as moving the conference tournament AND eliminating the quarterfinal round.
Have you been spending the last five weeks or so wondering when exactly we would get the 2025 Big East schedule for Marquette volleyball? After all, MU and new head coach Tom Mendoza announced the non-conference schedule back on May 9th, but the calendar clicked over into June and kept on going without word about the conference slate.
WORRY NO LONGER!
Marquette announced their 2025 Big East schedule on Wednesday, and with it came some pretty notable pieces of information.
ITEM THE FIRST: Marquette is hosting the 2025 Big East tournament….. although that’s not completely news, as the league has been going with a “regular season champ hosts next year, unless they hosted this year, then next year is 2nd place” model for a while now. Creighton won the league and hosted the tourney last year, so yep, second place Marquette and Milwaukee will be the host this fall.
ITEM THE SECOND: That Big East tournament? It’s not on Thanksgiving weekend any more. Nope, it’s one week earlier, November 22nd and 23rd. Yes, it’s two days because…….
ITEM THE THIRD: So long, First Round/Quarterfinals! The Big East tournament is back to a four team semifinals then championship match format. Given that both soccer tournaments are doing that this season, we probably shouldn’t be surprised here.
ITEM THE FOURTH: Guess what happens when you move the tournament back a week? That’s right, you lose a week of regular season competition, and sure enough, Marquette is playing a 16 game Big East schedule this year. They will host both Providence and UConn and visit both Georgetown and Villanova for the only meetings of the season against those four teams. The other 12 games on the slate are home-and-home dates with the other six teams in the Big East.
Yes, that means that the home-and-home schedule for Creighton remains intact, which is great news for Marquette’s RPI. The home date against the Bluejays will be the third Big East game of the year and is set for Thursday, October 2nd, while the road contest will be almost one month later on Saturday, November 1st. Those two matches are particularly interesting this year, as both Marquette and Creighton have new head coaches. The fact that the Big East could be as wide open as it has been in a decade does make it slightly weird that the league is reducing the number of regular season games AND eliminating two teams from the conference tournament at the same time.
By the way: As far as I can tell, Selection Sunday is still the Sunday after Thanksgiving. This means that the teams that advance to the Big East tournament will be sitting idle for a week…. Or at the very least, Marquette will be if that’s what’s in their future, as MU does not have any matches scheduled after the regular season finale on November 16th.
By the way: Since Marquette is starting Big East play with four home matches, that means that the Golden Eagles will play 13 straight contests at home…. As long as you consider the Wisconsin match at Fiserv a home game for Marquette. It also means that they’ll close the season with eight of their final 12 games on the road. That feels not ideal.
Here’s the full 2025 schedule!
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