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UNIVERSITY PARK -- The Penn State women's basketball team learned the home and road designations for its 18 Big Ten Conference games this season earlier this week.
Dates, television network assignments and tipoff times for all Big Ten contests will be announced later this year.
The Lady Lions will compete against five double-play opponents in conference competition with one game apiece scheduled on each team's home campus. Penn State will challenge Minnesota and Purdue in a pair of regular-season games for the second straight season. Penn State will play a home-and-home series with the Big Ten Tournament runner-up Ohio State Buckeyes in addition to a pair of games against Northwestern and Maryland.
PSU squares off against a quartet of single-game opponents at home with Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State and Nebraska. Michigan State returns to Penn State for the second year in a row after playing Penn State twice last season in a home-and-home series. Michigan, Illinois and Nebraska each travel to University Park for the first time since the 2021-22 campaign.
Penn State's final group of games will be contested on the road, with the Lady Lions playing at Indiana, Iowa, Rutgers and Wisconsin.
Coach Carolyn Kieger enters her fifth season at the helm of the Lady Lions in 2023-24, having boosted the program's win total in each of the past four seasons. Penn State won 14 total games a season ago highlighted by an 11-6 mark in games played at home.
The Lady Lions return seven letterwinners from last year's roster highlighted by a trio of starting guards in Makenna Marisa, Leilani Kapinus and Shay Ciezki.