The Washington women’s basketball team won’t be able to ease into its first Big Ten season. The conference schedule makers didn't do them any favors with its opener.

With IU basketball's Big Ten schedule released, Insider Zach Osterman's takeaways from what shapes up to be a challenging winter for Indiana.

While the Big 10 opponents were already known, the dates on which both the men’s and women’s basketball teams would be facing those teams weren’t known until Thursday. The Big 10 released the dates of this coming season’s conference games,