For the second straight year, all six of the city’s NCAA Division I men’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 Wells Fargo Center on Saturday, Dec. 7 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 the 2024-25 season, Pod 1 once again features Drexel, La Salle and Temple while Pod 2 features Penn, Saint Joseph’s and Villanova.
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2024-25 Philadelphia Big 5 Men’s Basketball Schedule
(All game times TBA by host school)
Pod 1
Tuesday, Nov. 12 – Drexel at Temple
Saturday, Nov. 16 – La Salle at Drexel
Saturday, Nov. 30 – Temple at La Salle
Pod 2
Tuesday, Nov. 12 – Villanova at Saint Joseph’s
Friday, Nov. 15 – Saint Joseph’s at Penn
Tuesday, Nov. 19 – Penn at Villanova
Men’s Big 5 Classic
Saturday, Dec. 7 at Wells Fargo Center, game times TBA
