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After a 2022 season that saw Butler face four ranked opponents and advance to the semifinals of the BIG EAST Tournament, Coach Paul Snape and his staff have lined up another challenging slate for the fall 2023 season. The 18-game schedule begins with three exhibition matches and includes eight home contests in the Sellick Bowl or at Varsity Field. The Bulldogs will face seven opponents who qualified for last season's NCAA Tournament.
 
The BIG EAST portion of the schedule has been altered from previous years with the addition of Akron to the conference contenders. A pair of six-team divisions has been created, with the East Division consisting of Connecticut, Georgetown, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall and Villanova, and the Midwest Division including Akron, Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Marquette and Xavier. Each team will play all five divisional members once, in addition to three cross-over matches each year. Overall, the league will transition from a 10-match conference season to eight matches.
 
Butler's home opener will be the first of three exhibition matches to start the season. Prior to regular-season contests, the Bulldogs will host Huntington on August 10 and will then travel to Bradley (Aug. 13) and Notre Dame (Aug. 19).
 
The seven-game non-conference portion of the regular-season schedule includes four 2022 tournament qualifiers: a home match with Ohio State (Sept. 9) and road trips to St. Louis (Aug. 24), Western Michigan (Sept. 4), and Indiana (Sept. 19). Butler will also host cross-town opponent IUPUI on Tuesday, Oct. 3 and travel to SIU-Edwardsville on Sunday, Aug. 27.
 
The eight-match BIG EAST schedule begins on Friday, Sept. 15, when the Bulldogs travel to Villanova. The first home conference foe will be Marquette on Saturday, Sept. 23. Additional home opponents are Creighton (Oct. 7), Providence (Oct. 21), and Akron (Oct. 28). With Akron joining the BIG EAST for men's soccer, the conference will no longer play a round-robin schedule. Butler will not see UConn, St. John's, or Seton Hall during the regular season.
 
A few days after the conclusion of the regular season, the 2023 BIG EAST Tournament will begin. The top eight teams in the league standings will battle in search of the conference's automatic entry into the NCAA Tournament.
 
Entering his 13^th season, Coach Snape and his program are looking to build on the success of the previous teams. The Bulldogs have qualified for the BIG EAST Tournament six times since 2016 and competed in the NCAA Tournament in three of those seasons. The 2017 side finished atop the BIG EAST standings and won two matches in the NCAA Tournament.
 
For the fall 2023 season, Coach Snape returns an experienced and talented squad that includes several athletes who received weekly and postseason awards in 2022. Sophomore forward Palmer Ault was the 2022 BIG EAST Freshman of the Year and was also on the All-BIG EAST First Team and the United Soccer Coaches All-East Region First Team. Redshirt-senior midfielder Tommy Visser received a BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week honor last November, and graduate student Jack Streberger was on the Weekly Honor Roll in October. After the 2022 BIG EAST Tournament, redshirt-senior DJ Hooks was named to the All-Tournament Team. Additional returnees who were regular starters last season include Joost de Schutter and Vygo Verkooijen.
 
In addition to these returnees, the incoming Bulldogs recruiting class will be announced in the coming weeks.