Another piece of Nebraska’s 2026 schedule puzzle is coming together. The Big Ten Conference announced the home/away matches for each school on BTN on Monday. To accommodate the addition of the first-ever end-of-season Big Ten Tournament, the conference reduced the league schedule from 20 matches to 17. In the new format, the Huskers will play at home nine times and travel for league matches eight times. The Huskers play five of the top seven teams that finished the 2025 season behind them in the league standings at home next season. Wisconsin (second, 17-3), Purdue (tied third, 15-5), USC (tied third, 15-5), Minnesota (tied sixth, 12-8), and UCLA (tied sixth, 12-8) will all travel to Lincoln. NU will also host three of the bottom four teams in last year’s standings in Iowa (6-14), Ohio State (3-17) and Rutgers (3-17). Illinois (8-12) will also play at the Devaney Center. For the road matches, the only top-five team from last year that Nebraska will visit is Indiana (14-6).…