The team’s schedule includes many Power Five conference teams, including Big Ten teams such as Indiana University, the University of Iowa and Michigan State University, as well as the University of Notre Dame. Across all sports, WMU has shown the philosophy of scheduling games against the best opponents in the nation in order to prepare them for MAC play.
“That’s one thing we pride ourselves in. We play a strong schedule. To date we’ve played two Big Ten teams, an ACC team, another Big Ten team here [on Feb. 24], and then two teams in the top 40 in the country all before our Mid-American Conference season, which is only going to help us down that stretch,” head coach Ryan Tomlinson said.