Seven teams, six conference games each, a true single round robin, and every last one of those games on a Friday. Here is the full BIG EAST field hockey schedule, nonconference included.
Table of Contents
- How BIG EAST field hockey works in 2026
- Opening weekend, August 28 to 30
- Week 2, September 4 and 6
- Week 3, September 11 and 13
- Conference week 1, September 18 to 20
- Conference week 2, September 25 to 28
- Conference week 3, October 2 and 4
- Conference week 4, October 9 and 11
- Conference week 5, October 16 and 18
- Conference week 6, October 23 and 25
- Conference week 7, October 30 and November 1
- BIG EAST Championship
- NCAA Tournament
- Games to circle in 2026
- BIG EAST field hockey 2026 FAQ
- Dig deeper
Times are Eastern. Conference games are in bold. The composite lists no broadcast information, so the Site column is where the game is actually played, which in this league is often not the home team’s field.
How BIG EAST field hockey works in 2026
Seven teams play BIG EAST field hockey: Georgetown, Liberty, Old Dominion, Providence, Temple, UConn and Villanova. Four of those are full BIG EAST members. Liberty, Old Dominion and Temple are here as associates, because their own leagues do not sponsor the sport.
It was eight last year. Quinnipiac, a BIG EAST field hockey member since 2016, went back to the Northeast Conference as an associate for 2026, which took the conference schedule from seven games to six and turned it into a clean round robin: everyone plays everyone once, 21 games in all.
They are all on Fridays. Three conference games a week, seven straight Fridays from September 18 to October 30, with Sundays left to nonconference. If you follow this league, Friday afternoon is the whole season.
Liberty is the preseason pick, with six of the seven first-place votes and 36 points in the coaches’ poll. UConn was second with 31 and the other first-place vote, then Old Dominion (23), Temple (20), Villanova (18), Providence (13) and Georgetown (6). Villanova graduate student Ava Borkowski was named preseason Offensive Player of the Year and Providence senior Bo Martina preseason Midfielder of the Year; Liberty swept the other two, Dara Semmartin taking Defensive Player of the Year.
The Lady Flames earned it. They went 7-0 in the league last year, hosted the championship, and beat UConn 2-1 in overtime for the title, their third since 2021. UConn still owns the tournament’s history with 21 championships, and the Huskies have now lost two of the last five finals to a program that joined the league in 2016.
Opening weekend, August 28 to 30
| Game | Date | Time | Site |
| Liberty at Maine | Aug 28 | 12:00 | Orono |
| Temple at James Madison | Aug 28 | 3:00 | Harrisonburg |
| Providence at Boston College | Aug 28 | 3:00 | Newton, Mass. |
| Old Dominion at Ohio State | Aug 28 | 4:00 | Columbus |
| Villanova at Delaware | Aug 28 | 4:00 | Philadelphia (Drexel) |
| Georgetown at Davidson | Aug 28 | 5:00 | Davidson |
| UConn at New Hampshire | Aug 29 | 12:00 | Site listed as St. Joseph’s |
| Liberty at UMass | Aug 29 | 12:00 | Orono |
| Old Dominion at Bellarmine | Aug 29 | 3:00 | Columbus |
| Villanova at La Salle | Aug 30 | 12:00 | Conshohocken (The Proving Grounds) |
| Georgetown at App State | Aug 30 | 12:00 | Boone |
| Boston University at Providence | Aug 30 | 12:00 | Providence |
| UConn at Saint Joseph’s | Aug 30 | 2:00 | Philadelphia |
| Temple at Maryland | Aug 30 | 2:00 | College Park |
Three of these are third-party sites: Villanova plays Delaware at Drexel, Liberty plays UMass at Maine, Old Dominion plays Bellarmine at Ohio State. The UConn game at New Hampshire has a broken site field in the composite.
Week 2, September 4 and 6
| Game | Date | Time | Site |
| UConn at Brown | Sep 4 | 1:00 | Providence |
| Georgetown at Towson | Sep 4 | 2:00 | Towson |
| Old Dominion at Princeton | Sep 4 | 3:00 | Chapel Hill |
| Villanova at Penn State | Sep 4 | 3:00 | University Park |
| New Haven at Providence | Sep 4 | 3:00 | Providence |
| Liberty at Saint Joseph’s | Sep 4 | 3:00 | Philadelphia |
| Temple at Lafayette | Sep 4 | 6:00 | Easton |
| Old Dominion at Penn | Sep 6 | 10:00 AM | Chapel Hill |
| Georgetown at Lock Haven | Sep 6 | 12:00 | Lock Haven |
| New Haven at Villanova | Sep 6 | 12:00 | Collegeville |
| Liberty at James Madison | Sep 6 | 12:00 | Harrisonburg |
| Providence at Bryant | Sep 6 | 12:00 | Smithfield |
| UConn at Harvard | Sep 6 | 1:00 | Cambridge |
| Temple at Wagner | Sep 6 | 1:00 | Staten Island |
Old Dominion plays two Ivy League teams in Chapel Hill in three days and then comes back the following week to play North Carolina, which is a long way to go twice.
Week 3, September 11 and 13
| Game | Date | Time | Site |
| Queens (Charlotte) at Villanova | Sep 11 | 12:00 | Collegeville |
| Providence at Sacred Heart | Sep 11 | 1:00 | New Haven (at Yale) |
| Monmouth at Temple | Sep 11 | 4:00 | Philadelphia |
| Georgetown at Richmond | Sep 11 | 4:00 | Richmond |
| Old Dominion at North Carolina | Sep 11 | 5:00 | Chapel Hill |
| Virginia at Liberty | Sep 11 | 5:00 | Lynchburg |
| Rider at Temple | Sep 13 | 11:00 AM | Philadelphia |
| Providence at Hofstra | Sep 13 | 12:00 | Hempstead |
| UConn at Rutgers | Sep 13 | 12:00 | Piscataway |
| Villanova at Lehigh | Sep 13 | 12:00 | Bethlehem |
| Longwood at Liberty | Sep 13 | 1:00 | Lynchburg |
| Georgetown at William & Mary | Sep 13 | 4:00 | Richmond |
Georgetown’s game against William & Mary is listed in Richmond rather than Williamsburg, which fits a weekend based in Richmond but is worth confirming.
Conference week 1, September 18 to 20
The league opens with all three conference games on one Friday afternoon, a pattern that holds for the next seven weeks.
| Game | Date | Time | Site |
| Georgetown at Temple | Sep 18 | 1:00 | Philadelphia |
| Providence at Old Dominion | Sep 18 | 2:00 | Norfolk |
| Villanova at UConn | Sep 18 | 3:00 | Storrs |
| Miami (OH) at Liberty | Sep 19 | 12:00 | Lynchburg |
| Hofstra at Temple | Sep 20 | 12:00 | Philadelphia |
| Princeton at UConn | Sep 20 | 12:00 | Storrs |
| Drexel at Villanova | Sep 20 | 12:00 | Collegeville |
| Delaware at Old Dominion | Sep 20 | 12:00 | Norfolk |
| Georgetown at Rider | Sep 20 | 12:00 | Lawrenceville |
| App State at Liberty | Sep 20 | 1:00 | Lynchburg |
| Providence at Brown | Sep 20 | 4:00 | Providence |
Conference week 2, September 25 to 28
| Game | Date | Time | Site |
| Temple at Villanova | Sep 25 | 12:00 | Villanova |
| Providence at Georgetown | Sep 25 | 1:00 | Washington |
| Liberty at UConn | Sep 25 | 6:00 | Storrs |
| St. Louis at Old Dominion | Sep 27 | 11:00 AM | Norfolk |
| Northeastern at UConn | Sep 27 | 12:00 | Storrs |
| Providence at American | Sep 27 | 1:00 | Washington |
| Georgetown at VCU | Sep 27 | 1:00 | Richmond |
| Old Dominion at William & Mary | Sep 28 | 6:00 | Williamsburg |
Conference week 3, October 2 and 4
| Game | Date | Time | Site |
| Georgetown at Villanova | Oct 2 | 12:00 | Villanova |
| UConn at Providence | Oct 2 | 3:00 | Providence |
| Old Dominion at Liberty | Oct 2 | 3:00 | Lynchburg |
| Delaware at Temple | Oct 2 | 4:00 | Philadelphia |
| Temple at Princeton | Oct 4 | 12:00 | Princeton |
| Liberty at Richmond | Oct 4 | 12:00 | Richmond |
| UMass Lowell at Providence | Oct 4 | 12:00 | Providence |
| Georgetown at Drexel | Oct 4 | 12:00 | Philadelphia |
| Villanova at Penn | Oct 4 | 12:00 | Philadelphia |
| UMass at UConn | Oct 4 | 1:00 | Storrs |
Conference week 4, October 9 and 11
| Game | Date | Time | Site |
| Georgetown at Liberty | Oct 9 | 1:00 | Lexington, Va. |
| Villanova at Old Dominion | Oct 9 | 1:00 | Norfolk |
| Temple at UConn | Oct 9 | 3:00 | Storrs |
| Holy Cross at Providence | Oct 11 | 12:00 | Providence |
| Temple at Yale | Oct 11 | 12:00 | New Haven |
| Queens (NC) at Old Dominion | Oct 11 | 12:00 | Norfolk |
| Hofstra at Villanova | Oct 11 | 12:00 | Collegeville |
| Colgate at Georgetown | Oct 11 | 12:00 | Washington |
| North Carolina at Liberty | Oct 11 | 1:00 | Lynchburg |
The composite puts Georgetown at Liberty in Lexington, Va., which is about 50 miles from the Liberty Field Hockey Field in Lynchburg. Either it is a neutral site nobody has explained yet or it is a typo. Check libertyflames.com.
Conference week 5, October 16 and 18
| Game | Date | Time | Site |
| Old Dominion at Temple | Oct 16 | 12:00 | Philadelphia |
| UConn at Georgetown | Oct 16 | 1:00 | Washington |
| Liberty at Providence | Oct 16 | 2:00 | Providence |
| New Hampshire at Temple | Oct 18 | 11:00 AM | Philadelphia |
| Villanova at Saint Joseph’s | Oct 18 | 12:00 | Philadelphia |
| Georgetown at American | Oct 18 | 1:00 | Washington |
| Old Dominion at Richmond | Oct 18 | 1:00 | Richmond |
| UConn at Cornell | Oct 18 | 2:00 | Ithaca |
Conference week 6, October 23 and 25
| Game | Date | Time | Site |
| Villanova at Providence | Oct 23 | 2:00 | Providence |
| Temple at Liberty | Oct 23 | 2:00 | Lynchburg |
| UConn at Old Dominion | Oct 23 | 3:00 | Norfolk |
| Longwood at Old Dominion | Oct 25 | 11:00 AM | Norfolk |
| Villanova at Wagner | Oct 25 | 12:00 | Staten Island |
| Fairfield at Providence | Oct 25 | 12:00 | Providence |
| Duke at Liberty | Oct 25 | 1:00 | Lynchburg |
| Georgetown at Delaware | Oct 25 | 1:00 | Newark, Del. |
Conference week 7, October 30 and November 1
Three games settle the bracket, and then Temple plays one more for no reason other than that it is on the schedule.
| Game | Date | Time | Site |
| Providence at Temple | Oct 30 | 12:00 | Philadelphia |
| Liberty at Villanova | Oct 30 | 12:00 | Collegeville |
| Old Dominion at Georgetown | Oct 30 | 1:00 | Washington |
| Fairfield at UConn | Oct 30 | 3:00 | Storrs |
| Temple at Penn | Nov 1 | 12:00 | Philadelphia |
BIG EAST Championship
Temple hosts, at Howarth Field in North Philadelphia, November 6 to 8. Semifinals Friday, final Sunday, four teams, single elimination, and the winner takes the automatic NCAA bid. It is the third time Howarth has hosted the event, after 2023 and 2016.
Four of seven qualify, which means three teams finish the round robin on October 30 and are done. In a league this small, one Friday in October can end a season.
Liberty is the defending champion and hosted last year in Lynchburg. UConn has won it 21 times.
NCAA Tournament
First and second rounds are November 13 and 15 at campus sites. The final four and the national championship are at Louisville’s Trager Stadium on November 20 and 22.
The BIG EAST gets one automatic bid and, in most years, hopes for a second at large. Liberty has reached the NCAA field in four of the last five seasons, and took a 17-2 record into it last November.
Games to circle in 2026
- Liberty at UConn, September 25. One versus two in the preseason poll, in Storrs, in week two of the round robin. These teams met twice last year: Liberty won 1-0 in the regular season and 2-1 in overtime for the championship.
- Liberty at Villanova, October 30. The favorite closes on the road against the team it beat 3-1 in last year’s semifinal, in a game Ava Borkowski tied up in the fourth quarter before Liberty pulled away.
- North Carolina at Liberty, October 11, and Duke at Liberty, October 25. Two ACC programs come to Lynchburg in a fortnight. Add Virginia on September 11 and Liberty has hosted three of them before Halloween.
- UConn at Old Dominion, October 23. Second and third in the preseason poll, on the second to last Friday, with seeding on the line.
- Old Dominion at Ohio State, August 28. The Monarchs open at a Big Ten program that will be in its own conference race by October.
- Temple at Maryland, August 30. Temple opens with a four-game road swing and this is the hardest of them.
- Villanova at UConn, September 18. The first conference game of the season, 3:00 on a Friday in Storrs.
- Temple at Penn, November 1. The only November regular season game in the league, five days before Temple hosts the championship on its own field.
BIG EAST field hockey 2026 FAQ
When does BIG EAST conference play start? September 18, with all three games that Friday. The regular season ends October 30.
How many conference games does each team play? Six. Seven teams, 21 conference games, a full single round robin, every one of them on a Friday.
Which schools play BIG EAST field hockey? Seven: Georgetown, Liberty, Old Dominion, Providence, Temple, UConn and Villanova. Liberty, Old Dominion and Temple are associate members in the sport.
What changed from last year? Quinnipiac left for the Northeast Conference, so the league dropped from eight teams to seven and the conference schedule from seven games to six.
Who is the favorite? Liberty, which took six of seven first-place votes and 36 points in the preseason coaches’ poll. UConn was second with 31.
Is there a BIG EAST tournament? Yes, November 6 to 8 at Temple’s Howarth Field. Four teams, single elimination, semifinals Friday and the final Sunday. The winner receives the automatic NCAA bid.
Where can I watch? The composite does not list networks. Games generally stream through the home school, and last year all three championship games were on ESPN+.
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