The Virginia Tech women's basketball team will be looking to get into the NCAA Tournament after missing it last season in Megan Duffy's first season in Blacksburg after taking over for Kenny Brooks. When the dust settled on the 2024-25 campaign, the Hokies were the first team left out of the 68-team field.
We are three months away from another season in Blacksburg beginning, and despite losing some starters, Virginia Tech is returning a good part of its core, along with some talented incoming freshmen and some transfers. On Friday, Virginia Tech dropped its 2025-26 non-conference schedule, and it is a very home-friendly one.
Virginia Tech women's basketball drops non-conference schedule for 2025-26
When the schedule was released on Friday, it has nine of the 12 non-conference games in Cassell Coliseum. The three road games will be one at James Madison in November and then two Thanksgiving Weekend in the U.S. Virgin Islands against BYU on Nov. 27, then either Oregon State or Vanderbilt two days later.
Virginia Tech will open the season on November 4 against Towson, followed by a visit from Loyola five days later. Also visiting Blacksburg in November are Gardner-Webb, Coastal Carolina, and Niagara. In December, Florida will visit as part of the ACC/SEC Challenge, the Hokies' first home game since the annual event began after road games at LSU and Georgia.
Presbyterian will also come to Virginia Tech in December, along with East Tennessee State University and Radford, to close out the non-conference portion of the schedule. The ACC schedule will be released at a later date.
This is a non-conference schedule that should pile up at least nine, if not 10, or 11 wins before ACC play begins in full. The 18-game conference slate will be another gauntlet for the Hokies, but taking care of business in the non-conference slate can give them momentum going into ACC play.