Indiana basketball to visit Hollywood for first time in Big Ten Conference play
BLOOMINGTON — Indiana will visit Los Angeles for the first time as part of the remade, bicoastal Big Ten next season as part of its road slate in conference play.
UCLA and USC landed among IU's road-only opponents, as expected, when the conference announced next year's home-and-away schedule pairings Tuesday.
The expectation — at least under the initial scheduling formula absorbing four West Coast teams into the league — is that teams traveling west will stack their two games in the Pacific Time Zone, to save on travel and time away from class.
Last year, Indiana drew the Pacific Northwest, splitting games at Washington and Oregon across a five-day stretch at the end of February and beginning of March. This time, the schedule flips, and the Hoosiers will get a long weekend in southern California.
Dates will be confirmed closer to the start of the men's basketball season.
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In particular, this season will mark Indiana's first meeting with fellow historic blue-blood UCLA in Los Angeles since 1960. And per IU's series-history archives, this will be the Hoosiers' first true road game at UCLA since before America entered World War II.
All time, Indiana is 6-7 against the Bruins, having lost its last two games in the series — in the second round of the 2007 NCAA tournament, and at home last February.
Full home and away pairings for Darian DeVries' first season at IU are below:
Home: Iowa, Nebraska, Northwestern, Oregon, Penn State, Washington, Wisconsin.
Two-play: Michigan State, Minnesota, Purdue*.
*annually protected two-play series
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