VESTAL, N.Y. – Reigning America East champion Binghamton baseball opens its 2026 season Feb. 13 at Conference USA power Dallas Baptist. The three-game series kicks off a 51-game slate that spans four months and leads into the America East Championship, which the Bearcats will host May 20-24.
The schedule is split between 27 non-conference and 24 conference games.
Beginning with the opening series against NCAA tournament mainstay Dallas Baptist, the Bearcats will face reigning MAAC champion and 2025 NCAA participant Fairfield (March 27-28), Atlantic-10 members Richmond (March 6-8) and St. Bonaventure (March 10, 31), Big East member Seton Hall (March 29), CAA power William & Mary (Feb. 20-22) and Big South frontrunner High Point (Feb. 27-March 1).
Binghamton also will continue its longstanding rivalry with in-state opponents Cornell (3 games), Le Moyne (2 games), St. Bonaventure (2 games) and Siena.
""Our non-conference schedule will be quite a challenge, but I believe it's the only way to prepare the team for the demands of America East Conference play, which in my opinion gets better and better each and every year," 34
th-year head coach Tim Sinicki said.
The season start in Dallas will pit the Bearcats against a DBU program that won 41 games last season and posted a 21-6 mark in Conference USA. Dallas Baptist is one of just five teams in the country to advance to the NCAA Regionals in 11 consecutive seasons and the Patriots have won 40+ games in 10 of those seasons.
The next two weekends bring tough matchups against four-time CAA champion William & Mary and Big South power High Point (39-19 last season). The first weekend in March offers no respite when the Bearcats head back to Virginia for a three-game set against a Richmond team that won 33 games in 2025.
The home opener is slated for March 3, when Patriot League member Lafayette comes to town. Thanks to an exceptional home facility and turf field, the Bearcats will play 10 home games in the month of March, capped with a series against reigning MAAC champion Fairfield (39-19 last season) and a first-ever matchup against Seton Hall.
Before that, the March 13-15 home series against Bryant will be a rematch of the America East championship series in Maine, when the Bearcats took down the top-seeded Bulldogs 6-5 in 11 innings to punch another NCAA Regional ticket.
The unbalanced 24-game America East slate consists of six games each against Bryant and UMass Lowell and three each against UAlbany, Maine, NJIT and UMBC. The top six teams will meet at the Bearcats Baseball Complex on May 20 to begin the postseason tournament. Binghamton has won two of the last four championships.
