Season Preview Louis (Jan. 20), then returns to Hawk Hill for contests against St. Bonaventure (Jan. 27) and Butler (Jan. 30) to cap the month. February begins with Saint Joseph's playing three of its first four games on the road. The Hawks open with contests at Rhode Island (Feb. 3) and VCU (Feb. 6), followed by a home game against Charlotte (Feb. 10) and a trip to Duquesne (Feb. 13). The Hawks return to Hagan Arena for a pair of contests. Saint Joseph's game against Temple on February 17 will be televised nationally on the CBS Sports Network, followed by a mid-week contest versus La Salle (Feb. 20). Saint Joseph's caps the regular season with an away game at Fordham (Feb. 24), followed by its final home game against Massachusetts (Feb. 27). The Hawks wrap up the regular season with a televised game on ESPN2 at Dayton on March 3.
Hosting the A-10 Women's Basketball Championship for the ninth time, the Hawks will welcome the top 12 teams in the conference to Hagan Arena from March 8-10. For the first time in league history, the A-10 Championship game will be played at a separate venue, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., on March 16. “Any time you can get people on your campus it is a positive thing for the University. The fact that we have had success hosting this tournament, it gives you a sense of confidence,” Griffin said. “And if we advance on, we get to play at the Barclays Center, on center stage in New York on a Saturday night, and it doesn’t get much better than that. “I think publicly no one is expecting a lot from this team because we lost a great deal, “she concluded. “But it is an opportunity for this team to sneak up on some people and to prove that they belong in the postseason, too. We need to be ready to show it and that starts with the opening
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Senior guard/forward Mireia Vila
Junior forward Ashley Robinson
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