Women’s Basketball Announces 2013-14 Schedule Women’s Basketball 2013-14 Schedule
Fourteen regular season home games plus an invitation to the Preseason WNIT highlight the 2013-14 Stetson University women’s basketball schedule. The Hatters are coming off their best season in school-history, registering a school-record 24 wins, capturing their fourth Atlantic Sun Conference Championship, and earning their highestever seed to the NCAA Tournament (14). The Hatters open the season on Nov. 8 at Oklahoma, a team that advanced to last year’s NCAA Sweet 16. The game will be Stetson’s first in the preseason WNIT, a 32-team tournament in which the Hatters will play at least three games. Stetson will play its home opener on Nov. 18 against Indiana State. Stetson went 14-1 at home last season and is 30-2 (.938) in its last 32 games at home. The Sycamores won 18 games last year and played in the WNIT. The Hatters will play four of its next five games on the road against in-state nonconference opponents, including trips to Bethune-Cookman (Nov. 20), Florida State (Nov. 29), Florida A&M (Dec. 2), and USF (Dec. 8). The Bethune-Cookman game pits two Volusia County rivals who be meeting for the 15th time in the last 16 seasons. Stetson will also play four times at the Edmunds Center in December, beginning with its annual Volusia County Schoolchildren Day on Dec. 5 vs. Palm Beach Atlantic. The Hatters will also face Charlotte on Dec. 15, completing a homeand-home series that originated last year.
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The 26th Annual Hatter Classic returns to the Edmunds Center on Dec. 20-21. Stetson will face Murray State and Nicholls State during the two-day event. Stetson has won the last three Hatter Classics. Following the holiday break Stetson embarks on its 18-game, double roundrobin conference schedule. The Hatters will play seven of their first 11 A-Sun games on the road, beginning with a Jan. 4 contest at Florida Gulf Coast. Other road games include Mercer (Jan. 12), Kennesaw State (Jan. 14), Northern Kentucky (Jan. 26), Lipscomb (Feb. 2), USC Upstate (Feb. 4), ETSU (Feb. 16), North Florida (Feb. 20), and Jacksonville (Feb. 22). The home portion of the A-Sun schedule features USC Upstate (Jan. 9), ETSU (Jan. 11), North Florida (Jan. 23), Jacksonville (Jan. 25), Kennesaw State (Feb. 13), Mercer (Feb. 15), Northern Kentucky (Feb. 27), Lipscomb (Mar. 1), and Florida Gulf Coast (Mar. 8). The Atlantic Sun Conference Basketball Championships will feature a new format in 2013. The quarterfinals will be held on Mar. 11 at campus sites with the higher seed serving as the home team. The semfinals and finals will be held Mar. 1516 at the site of the highest remaining seed, giving the Hatters the potential of hosting three postseason games. Stetson returns six letterwinners from last year’s record-setting team, including juniors Cherisse Burris (Blue Springs, Mo.), C.J. Coddington (Davie, Fla.), Jama Sharp (Mooresville, Ind.), and senior Sasha Sims (Fayetteville, Ga.).
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Date Opponent Time NOVEMBER 8 Fri. & at Oklahoma 8:00 PM 10 Sun. & Pre-Season WNIT TBA 13 Wed. & Pre-Season WNIT TBA 17 Sun. & Pre-Season WNIT TBA 18 Mon. Indiana State 6:00 PM 20 Wed. at Bethune-Cookman 7:00 PM 29 Fri. at Florida State 7:00 PM DECEMBER 2 Mon. at Florida A&M 6:00 PM 5 Thur. Palm Beach Atlantic 11:00 AM 8 Sun. at USF 1:00 PM 17 Tue. Charlotte 5:00 PM 20 Fri. % Murray State 1:00 PM 21 Sat. % Nicholls State 1:00 PM JANUARY 4 Sat. * at Florida Gulf Coast 7:05 PM 9 Thur. * USC Upstate 6:00 PM 11 Sat. * ETSU 1:00 PM 16 Thur. * at Mercer 7:00 PM 18 Sat. * at Kennesaw State 2:00 PM 23 Thur. * North Florida 7:00 PM 25 Sat. * Jacksonville 1:00 PM 30 Thur. * at Northern Kentucky 7:00 PM FEBRUARY 1 Sat. * at Lipscomb 5:00 PM 6 Thur. * at USC Upstate 7:00 PM 8 Sat. * at ETSU 1:30 PM 13 Thur. * Kennesaw State 7:00 PM 15 Sat. * Mercer 1:00 PM 20 Thur. * at North Florida 5:30 PM 22 Sat. * at Jacksonville 1:00 PM 27 Thur. * Northern Kentucky 7:00 PM MARCH 1 Sat. * Lipscomb 1:00 PM 8 Sat. * Florida Gulf Coast 1:00 PM 11 Tue. Atlantic Sun Quarterfinals TBA 15 Sat. Atlantic Sun Semifinals TBA 16 Sun. Atlantic Sun Championship TBA & - Preseason WNIT % - Hatter Classic, DeLand, Fla. * - Atlantic Sun Conference game All times Eastern and subject to change Home games in Bold and played at the Edmunds Center
August-September, 2013