AMES, Iowa – Iowa State and coach Jamie Pinkerton have announced the 2024 Cyclone softball schedule. The Cyclones are scheduled to host 19 home games, their most home contests since 2016.

The schedule features four early season tournaments, with the Cyclones traveling to Mexico, Las Vegas, Virginia and Colorado before beginning Big 12 play on March 8. ISU will have five home weekend series as well as four home midweeks, highlighted by the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series on April 16.

The Cyclones will play eight teams who qualified for the NCAA Regionals last season, facing both Duke and Washington in Mexico before Long Beach State in Vegas. The remaining five schools – Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor Texas and UCF – are on the Big 12 schedule.

Iowa State will open the season with 23 consecutive games away from the Cyclone Softball Complex, with 19 contests coming from tournaments. After tournament play ends, Iowa State will open the Big 12 slate on the road at defending national champion Oklahoma before facing Tulsa on the way back to Ames.

A midweek trip to Kansas City on March 20 is sandwiched between home weekend series against Houston and Texas Tech. After back-to-back weekends at the CSC, Iowa State will head to Waco for a trio of matchups against Baylor, with action beginning on Thursday to accommodate the Easter holiday.

After returning from Texas, the Cyclones will face five straight opponents at home, beginning with UNI on April 2. Kansas then visits Ames for the weekend before the DePaul Blue Demons come to town for a midweek matchup. College World Series qualifier Oklahoma State follows DePaul for a weekend series before Iowa caps the homestand with the Cy-Hawk game on April 16.

Iowa State then heads to Big 12 newcomer BYU and will play Utah Valley a second time – the two teams will meet in Mexico – before leaving Utah. A home midweek match against St. Thomas leads into a road trip to Austin for a matchup with the Longhorns to close the month of April.

May begins with a trip to Des Moines to face Drake before the regular season concludes at the Cyclone Sports Complex as ISU will welcome Big 12 newcomer and regional qualifier UCF to Ames.

Big 12 Tournament play starts on May 8 in Oklahoma City.