VESTAL, N.Y. – With Ryan LeBlanc set to begin his first season as the Head Wrestling Coach at Binghamton, he announced the Binghamton wrestling program's schedule for the 2025-26 season Tuesday.
 
The Bearcats will compete in 11 duals along with five tournaments before wrestling at the EIWA Championships from March 6-7 at American University in Washington, D.C. The NCAA Wrestling Championships take place nearly two weeks after that from March 19-21 in Cleveland, Ohio.
 
"I am excited to release our 2025-26 schedule and begin my first season leading the Bearcats," said LeBlanc. "We will host six home duals throughout the season, and I hope our alumni and fans will come out and pack the Events Center and show their support. I also encourage everyone to follow us on the road as we compete against some of the top programs in the country. I am most looking forward to watching our guys grown and develop over the course of the entire season."
 
Admission to all of Binghamton's home duals is free on behalf of the New York Army National Guard.
 
Fans will first have an opportunity to see the Bearcats on the mat at wrestle-offs. 20 Binghamton wrestlers will compete against each other in an instrasquad dual on Friday, Oct. 24 at 5:30 p.m., in the Events Center.
 
Binghamton's season officially begins on Sunday, Nov. 2 at the Navy Classic in Annapolis, Md. A week later, the Bearcats travel to Bethlehem, Pa., for the Journeymen Collegiate Classic at Freedom High School. In that tournament, the Bearcats will go up against wrestlers from Lehigh, Indiana, Penn, Navy, Appalachian State, Virginia, Duke, Franklin & Marshall, LIU, Bloomsburg, Clarion, Sacred Heart, Harvard, Hofstra, Lock Haven, Columbia, Army West Point, Rutgers, Northern Iowa and Maryland.
 
Continuing its stretch of tournaments, Binghamton then competes at Army West Point's Black Knight Open on Nov. 16. The week after that on Nov. 23, the Bearcats travel up the road to Ithaca, N.Y., to take part in Cornell's Big Red Invitational.
 
Binghamton's first dual takes place on Saturday, Dec. 13, with the Bearcats wrestling at Bloomsburg. It will be the first time the programs have faced each other since Feb. 11, 2018, when the Bearcats defeated the Huskies 21-12 in Vestal. Six days later, Binghamton holds its first home dual of the season when the Bearcats welcome LIU to the Events Center on Friday, Dec. 19 at 6 p.m. The Bearcats enter that dual having won all five of its previous matchups against the Sharks.
 
After the calendar turns to 2026, Binghamton travels to Clifton Park, N.Y., to wrestle in Journeymen Wrestling's Armbar. This season, the Bearcats will wrestle in duals against both Hofstra and Lock Haven on Sunday, Jan. 4.
 
Later that week, the Bearcats welcome in-state rival Buffalo, coached by Binghamton Hall of Famer Donnie Vinson, to the West Gym on Thursday, Jan. 8. The following day, the Bearcats will send wrestlers to compete at the David H. Lehman '68 Franklin & Marshall Open.
 
Binghamton then enters a stretch of six consecutive duals to close out the regular season, five of which are in the Events Center. For its first two EIWA duals of the season, the Bearcats host Drexel on Friday, Jan. 16, followed by a home dual against Franklin & Marshall on Sunday, Jan. 18. On Sunday, Jan. 25, Binghamton wrestles against both Brown and Harvard in Vestal for its final home duals of the season. The Bearcats first face Brown at 3 p.m., followed by Harvard at 6 p.m.
 
The Bearcats' first dual in February has the team wrestling at Sacred Heart on Saturday, Feb. 7. Then, on Valentine's Day, Binghamton closes its regular season with a showdown against Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y.

With LeBlanc at the helm, Binghamton enters the 2025-26 season with a roster of 27 wrestlers, including 19 returners, seven freshmen and one transfer. In 2024-25, the Bearcats went 10-9 overall in dual competition, including a 5-3 mark against EIWA opponents. It is the first season where Binghamton won at least 10 duals since 2018-19. Current Binghamton assistant coach Brevin Cassella won the program's fifth individual EIWA championship, as he and Cory Day went on to qualify for nationals. After going 9-4 in 2023-24, the Bearcats won at least nine duals in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2017-18 and 2018-19. Those seasons, Binghamton went 12-5 and 10-3 respectively.
 
The New York Army National Guard is the presenting sponsor of Bearcats Wrestling.