The awards banquet program included the opponents for the upcoming season, the first in the "new" Big East for the Nova women.
As expected, we will play a home and away with all nine of the other Big East teams, making our first visits to Omaha (Creighton) and Indianapolis (Butler), while making an annual visit to Cincinnati (Xavier) to replace the every other year to play Cincinnati who remains in the "old" Big East, now called America's Dumping Ground, or some similar name.
The four Big Five games will have us at Temple and LaSalle, and staying at home for St. Joes and Penn.
The other seven non-conference games will consist of a home game with Lafayette, road games at Lehigh and Sacred Heart, with the other four games taking place at Florida International for a Thanksgiving tournament and at Toledo's Tip-Off tournament to start the season (probably playing Drexel in one of those games).
Say goodbye to a top 50 RPI, but probably a good shot at 18 or 19 wins against that schedule, even with the significant loss of talent and experience this year. Still no word on a Big East commissioner or a site for the women's Big East tournament. They need to get their crap together soon if they expect to be taken seriously as anything more than a mid-major conference getting an NCAA bid for only the conference tournament champion and maybe one other team each year.
As expected, we will play a home and away with all nine of the other Big East teams, making our first visits to Omaha (Creighton) and Indianapolis (Butler), while making an annual visit to Cincinnati (Xavier) to replace the every other year to play Cincinnati who remains in the "old" Big East, now called America's Dumping Ground, or some similar name.
The four Big Five games will have us at Temple and LaSalle, and staying at home for St. Joes and Penn.
The other seven non-conference games will consist of a home game with Lafayette, road games at Lehigh and Sacred Heart, with the other four games taking place at Florida International for a Thanksgiving tournament and at Toledo's Tip-Off tournament to start the season (probably playing Drexel in one of those games).
Say goodbye to a top 50 RPI, but probably a good shot at 18 or 19 wins against that schedule, even with the significant loss of talent and experience this year. Still no word on a Big East commissioner or a site for the women's Big East tournament. They need to get their crap together soon if they expect to be taken seriously as anything more than a mid-major conference getting an NCAA bid for only the conference tournament champion and maybe one other team each year.