In the new format, all six of the city’s NCAA Division I women’s basketball programs have been split into two pods of three teams. Each team will play the others in their pod at on-campus sites in a round-robin format. From those games, the schedule will be set for a tripleheader at Villanova’s Finneran Pavilion on Friday, Dec. 6 with the first seed in each pod competing for the Big 5 championship, the second-place teams in each pod competing for third place, and the third seeds competing for fifth place.
For this inaugural season of the new Big 5 women’s format, Pod 1 features Drexel, La Salle and Temple while Pod 2 features Penn, Saint Joseph’s and Villanova.
Last season, Temple won a share of the AAC Regular Season title and won 20 games in a season for the first time in nearly a decade.
Please note, ticket information for Big 5 tripleheader at Finneran Pavilion will be announced at a later date.
| Pod 1 | |
| Wednesday, Nov. 13 | La Salle at Drexel |
| Saturday, November 23 | Drexel at Temple |
| Sunday, December 1 | Temple at La Salle |
| Pod 2 | |
| Friday, November 15 | Saint Joseph’s at Penn |
| Wednesday, November 20 | Penn at Villanova |
| Sunday, December 1 | Villanova at Saint Joseph’s |
| Big 5 Women’s Classic | |
| Friday, December 6 | Finneran Pavilion – Villanova |