What to know as Big Ten unveils Wisconsin’s tip times, TV channels, preseason honoree

Wisconsin men’s basketball guard John Blackwell is one of 10 members of the 2025-26 preseason all-Big Ten team, the conference announced on Oct. 7.

He is the only Badger on the 10-player all-conference team. Purdue’s Braden Smith is the Big Ten preseason player of the year for the second consecutive season, and Purdue and Oregon are the only schools with multiple players receiving preseason honors.

The Big Ten’s preseason all-conference team does not delineate between first-team and second-team honorees in the group of 10. A media panel from across the conference voted on the group. The conference also does not conduct its own preseason poll although media organizations have picked up that responsibility. Those polls have not yet been released.

Blackwell is coming off a much-improved 2024-25 season, as the 6-foot-4 guard averaged 15.5 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game while shooting 45.1%.

Start times, TV assignments announced for Wisconsin men’s basketball

The Big Ten unveiled Wisconsin men’s basketball’s start times and TV assignments for every game on the 2025-26 schedule. It comes with several opportunities to play on major networks, but also some late nights and streaming-only games.

The Badgers’ games on Dec. 19 against Villanova, Jan. 3 against Purdue, Feb. 13 against Michigan State, Jan. 31 against Ohio State and Feb. 7 against Indiana all will be on Fox. The second game of the Rady Children’s Invitational against either TCU or Florida also is slated for Fox. UW’s Jan. 10 game against Michigan and March 7 game against Purdue will be on CBS.

At the same time, seven UW games will require streaming services. The exhibitions against Oklahoma and UW-Platteville are both on B1G+ as well as the Nov. 3 home opener against Campbell. The Nov. 21 game against BYU and Big Ten games against UCLA, Illinois and USC will be on Peacock.

Eight Wisconsin games will tip off at 7:30 p.m. or later. The most extreme is on Feb. 25, when the Badgers play at Oregon on Big Ten Network at 10 p.m. CT. The two Big Ten games in December – home against Northwestern and away against Nebraska – are among those with 8 p.m. tipoffs.

The full list of TV assignments and time slots follows:

• Oct. 24 vs. Oklahoma (exhibition at Fiserv Forum), 7 p.m., B1G+
• Oct. 29 vs. UW-Platteville (exhibition), 7 p.m. B1G+
• Nov. 3 vs. Campbell, 7 p.m., B1G+
• Nov. 7 vs. Northern Illinois, 7:30 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Nov. 11 vs. Ball State, 7:30 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Nov. 17 vs. SIUE, 7 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Nov. 21 vs. BYU (in Salt Lake City), 3 p.m., Peacock
• Nov. 27 vs. Providence (Rady Children’s Invitational in San Diego), 4:30 p.m., FS1
• Nov. 28 vs. TCU or Florida (Rady Children’s Invitational in San Diego), 2 or 4:30 p.m., Fox
• Dec. 3 vs. Northwestern, 8 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Dec. 6 vs. Marquette, 1 p.m., FS1
• Dec. 10 at Nebraska, 8 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Dec. 19 vs. Villanova (at Fiserv Forum), 7 p.m., Fox
• Dec. 22 vs. Central Michigan, 7 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Dec. 30 vs. UW-Milwaukee, 6 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Jan. 3 vs. Purdue, 7 p.m., Fox
• Jan. 6 vs. UCLA, 8 p.m., Peacock
• Jan. 10 at Michigan, 12 or 1 p.m., CBS
• Jan. 13 at Minnesota, 6 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Jan. 17 vs. Rutgers, 1 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Jan. 22 at Penn State, 6 p.m., FS1
• Jan. 25 vs. USC, 3 p.m., Peacock
• Jan. 28 vs. Minnesota, 8 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Jan. 31 vs. Ohio State, 1 p.m., Fox
• Feb. 7 at Indiana, 11 a.m., Fox
• Feb. 10 at Illinois, 7 p.m., Peacock
• Feb. 13 vs. Michigan State, 7 p.m., Fox
• Feb. 17 at Ohio State, 7:30 p.m., FS1
• Feb. 22 vs. Iowa, 3 p.m., FS1
• Feb. 25 at Oregon, 10 p.m., Big Ten Network
• Feb. 28 at Washington, 3 p.m., FS1
• March 4 vs. Maryland, 7 p.m., FS1
• March 7 at Purdue, 3 p.m., CBS

Wisconsin women’s basketball gets five games on Big Ten Network, two on Peacock

Wisconsin women’s basketball fans will need to have their streaming services in order again in 2025-26.

Five of the Badgers’ Big Ten games will be on Big Ten Network – home against Michigan State, Penn State, Oregon and Minnesota and away against Ohio State. The remaining conference games (and many nonconference games) are on streaming services.

UW’s Feb. 19 game at USC and Feb. 22 game at UCLA will be on Peacock. The remaining Big Ten games and home nonconference games will be on the conference’s B1G+ streaming platform. Other games’ tipoff times and TV assignments have yet to be announced.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Big Ten unveils Wisconsin’s tip times, TV channels, preseason honoree