Big 5 Pod Schedules Set for Historic 2024-25 Women’s Basketball Campaign

PHILADELPHIA – The schedule is set as a new era in Big 5 women's basketball begins in the 2024-25 season.

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.

Please note, ticket information for Big 5 tripleheader at Finneran Pavilion will be announced at a later date.

2024-25 Philadelphia Big 5 Women's Basketball Schedule
(All game times TBA by host school)

Pod 1
  Wednesday, Nov. 13 – La Salle at Drexel
  Saturday, Nov. 23 – Drexel at Temple
  Sunday, Dec. 1 – Temple at La Salle

 Pod 2
  Friday, Nov. 15 – Saint Joseph's at Penn
  Wednesday, Nov. 20 – Penn at Villanova
  Sunday, Dec. 1 – Villanova at Saint Joseph's 

 Big 5 Women's Classic
  Friday, Dec. 6 at Finneran Pavilion (Villanova), game times TBA