2025-26 MAAC Women’s Basketball Schedule Grid
EDISON, NJ (Aug. 25, 2025) – The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) has announced the 2025-26 women's basketball conference schedule.
MAAC Basketball Schedule Quick Facts:
- With 13 full member schools, the MAAC will play an unbalanced conference schedule for the second consecutive season during the 2025-26 campaign.
- All 13 teams will play a 20-game MAAC schedule, which will include 10 home games and 10 road games in addition to having two bye dates.
- Each team will play eight opponents twice in a home-home series (16 games).
- The remaining four contests on each team’s schedule will be single games against the remaining four opponents, featuring two home contests and two road contests.
- Each school is guaranteed to play their closest geographic opponent twice.
2025-26 Women’s Schedule Notes:
- The women’s schedule will start on Friday, December 19 and end on Saturday, February 28.
- The women will once again play a Thursday/Saturday format in all but two weeks during the conference stanza.
- The pair of weeks that will not be played on the normal Thursday/Saturday schedule will include a Friday/Sunday game schedule to start league play on December 19 and December 21 and a Wednesday/Saturday format on January 14 and 17.
- Additionally, the conference schedule will include a pair of Monday games highlighted by five games on December 29 and a full slate of games on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 19).
- The MAAC slate will begin with the December portion of the schedule on Friday, December 19 with a full six game docket, with games being hosted by Canisius University, Iona University, Mount St. Mary’s University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, and Rider University.
- The MAAC ESPNU television schedule and start times will be announced at a later date.
2026 MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships Notes:
- The 2025-26 campaign culminates with the 2026 MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships at Atlantic City's Historic Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall for the seventh consecutive year dating back to 2020.
- For the second straight year, the basketball championship field will feature the league’s top-10 teams and not all 13 full members.
- 2026 will mark the first time the tournament will start prior to the week of selection Sunday since the championships moved to Atlantic City, moving up a week to Thursday, March 5 through Tuesday, March 10.
- The women’s championship final will be a standalone game separate from the men on Monday, March 9.
- This will be first time the women’s final will not be on the same day as the men since the 2010 championships when the women’s game was played on a Sunday (March 7, 2010) and the men’s game occurred on a Monday (March 8, 2010).
- The ESPN network and start time for the women’s championship game will be announced at a later date.
The complete 2026 championship bracket can be found below.
| Thursday, March 5 |
| Women's First Round |
Game 1 |
#8 vs. #9 |
12:00 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
| Women's First Round |
Game 2 |
#7 vs. #10 |
2:30 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
| Friday, March 6 |
| Women's Quarterfinals |
Game 3 |
#1 vs. Game 1 Winner |
12:00 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
| Women's Quarterfinals |
Game 4 |
#2 vs. Game 2 Winner |
2:30 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
| Saturday, March 7 |
| Women's Quarterfinals |
Game 5 |
#4 vs. #5 |
12:00 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
| Women's Quarterfinals |
Game 6 |
#3 vs. #6 |
2:30 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
| Sunday, March 8 |
| Women's Semifinals |
Game 7 |
Game 3 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner |
12:00 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
| Women's Semifinals |
Game 8 |
Game 4 Winner vs. Game 6 Winner |
2:30 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
| Monday, March 9 |
| Women's Championship |
Game 9 |
Game 7 Winner vs. Game 8 Winner |
TBD |
TBD |
For all information regarding the 2026 MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships, please visit
MAACSports.com/basketball and by following @MAACHoops and #MAACHoops on Twitter.
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 13 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 45th year of competition during the 2025-26 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius University, Fairfield University, Iona University, Manhattan University, Marist University, Merrimack College, Mount St. Mary’s University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Sacred Heart University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena University.
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