2003-04 Sacred Heart Women's Basketball Schedule Released
8/25/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Aug. 25, 2003
FAIRFIELD, CT (August 25, 2003) -The Sacred Heart University women's basketball team released its 27-game schedule today that features a challenging slate of out-of-conference opponents including an appearance at the University of Maryland's Tournament.
The season tips-off with two home games, starting on Friday, November 21st when the Pioneers host the University of Massachusetts Minutewomen and continuing on Tuesday, November 25th against the Lafayette College Leopards.
From there, SHU will hit the road for the Thanksgiving holiday as they take part in the Maryland Tournament with Louisiana-Lafayette, Maryland-Eastern Shore and the host Terrapins.
Three home games against Ivy League opponents gets underway on December 3rd as the in-state rival Yale Bulldogs pay a visit to the William H. Pitt Center. Princeton (12/6), and Columbia (1/19) follow with a trip to fellow Ivy member Brown (12/21) on the slate for later in the season.
Sacred Heart will travel to Chestnut Hill, MA to take on Big East power, Boston College on December 21st. The two team met once before back in 1979, with the Pioneers coming away with a 60-48 win over the Eagles in the Bentley Tournament.
The team opens the Northeast Conference portion of the schedule on December 13th on the road at Wagner College. The Pioneers will play each of the other ten schools in the NEC twice, with the exception of Fairleigh Dickinson and St. Francis (PA) that they will play just once.
2003-04 Women's Basketball schedule
November - Massachusetts, 21; Lafayette, 25; at Maryland Tournament, 28-29
December - Yale, 3; Princeton, 6; at Wagner, 13; at Boston College, 21
January - at Brown, 4; Monmouth, 8; Fairleigh Dickinson, 10; Wagner, 13; at Mount St. Mary's, 17; Columbia, 19; at St. Francis (NY), 22; Long Island, 24; at Quinnipiac, 29; Central Connecticut, 31
February - St. Francis (NY), 2; at St. Francis (PA), 7; at Robert Morris, 9; at Long Island, 14; Robert Morris, 18; at Central Connecticut, 21; Quinnipiac, 23; at Monmouth, 26
March - Mount St. Mary's, 1
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