The Nebraska baseball team will play a 44-game conference schedule, as announced by the Big Ten Conference on Wednesday, February 17th. With all 44 games counted as conference games, the Big Ten has also announced that there will be no 2021. Big Ten Tournament, which Omaha would host in May.
The 13-week schedule consists of five weekends, four games and eight, three weekends. Each team must play at least three times every other conference team.
The Huskers open the season with two weekends on neutral grounds. The first of these neutral site events will take place in Round Rock, Texas, on Friday, March 5th. At Dell Diamond Stadium, Nebraska plays a four-game series against the Purdue Boilermakers. Next week, Nebraska leaves for Minneapolis, Minn., To play two games each against the Iowa Hawkeyes and Ohio Buckeyes at the US Bank Stadium.
After two neutral weekends to begin the season, Nebraska then leaves for Iowa City Week 3 for a three-game series with the Hawkeyes before returning home on Friday, March 26 for the start of a four-game series against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. . Nebraska’s other home series is against Maryland, Rutgers, Northwestern and Michigan.
The program also includes two pod weekends where the Huskers will play two road games against the host school and two neutral games against another enemy of the conference. The Huskers first pod weekend begins on May 7 when NU travels to Rutgers and plays both the Scarlet Knights and the Indiana Hoosiers. Two weeks later, the Huskers leave for Bloomington, Ind., Where they will once again play the Hoosiers and also the Ohio State Buckeyes.
The exact schedules for the weeks consisting of four matches will be announced later.
Nebraska’s 2020 season was canceled on March 12 due to the pandemic. In the first year led by Sal Bolt, the Huskers set a 7-8 record against a schedule that featured seven games against teams from the Big 12 and Pac-12 conferences.
2021 Nebraska Baseball Schedule
March 5-7 (Round Rock, Texas (Dell Diamond)) *
vs. Purdue (4 matches)
March 12-14 (Minneapolis, Minn. (US Bank Stadium))
vs. Iowa (2 games) and Ohio State (2 games)
March 19-21 (Iowa City, Iowa)
at Iowa (3 games)
March 26-28 (Hawks Field) *
Minnesota (4 games)
April 2-4 (Champaign, Ill.)
in Illinois (3 games)
April 9-11 (Hawks Field)
Maryland (3 games)
April 16-18 (University Park, Pa.)
by Penn State (3 games)
April 23-25 (East Lansing, Mich.)
at Michigan State (3 games)
April 30 – May 2 (Hawks Field)
Rutgers (3 games)
May 7-9 (Piscataway, NJ) *
at Rutgers (2 games) and vs. Indiana (2 games)
May 14-16 (Hawks Field)
Northwest (3 games)
May 21-23 (Bloomington, Ind.) *
in Indiana (2 games) and against Ohio State (2 games)
May 28-30 (Hawks Field)
Michigan (3 games)
Home series in bold
* – Currently on the weekend’s schedules for four-match series weekend.