Carver-Hawkeye Arena will play host to quite a bit of Iowa volleyball next year.
By Jordan Hansen
The Hawkeyes will host two tournaments and 10 Big Ten home matches during the coming season. Beginning the season with a road tournament at Northern Illinois, the team will open its home slate with the Iowa Invitational on Sept. 2-3.
Iowa will compete in the annual Cy-Hawk series when it heads to Iowa State for a tournament on Sept. 9-10. A final home tournament with yet-to-be-determined opponents will take place on Sept. 16-17.
September will be a busy month for the Hawkeyes — they will begin conference play on Sept. 23 against Michigan State. The next day, Iowa will head to Ann Arbor for a game with Michigan.
The final match of the month will be on Sept. 28 against Maryland.
October will bring nine more conference matches: at Northwestern (Oct. 1), vs. Purdue (Oct. 7), vs. Indiana (Oct. 8), at Maryland (Oct. 14) and at Ohio State (Oct. 15).
Iowa then has a four-game home stand to end the month, with matches against Minnesota (Oct. 21), Wisconsin (Oct. 22), Northwestern (Oct. 28), and Illinois (Oct. 29).
Home stands, of course, end at some point, and four road games await: Rutgers (Nov. 4), Penn State (Nov. 5), Nebraska (Nov. 9), and Purdue (Nov. 12).
Three of Iowa’s final four games are at home, with dates in Carver-Hawkeye against Rutgers (Nov. 16), Nebraska (No. 19), and Michigan State — the final game of the regular season — on Nov. 26.
The Hawkeyes final road game will be against Wisconsin on Nov. 23.