Women's Basketball Announces 2019-20 Schedule
10/14/2019 9:25:00 AM | Women's Basketball
STATESBORO - Georgia Southern women's basketball has unveiled its upcoming 2019-20 schedule. The Eagles, under first-year head coach Anita Howard, will play a challenging slate that features 11 home games at Hanner Fieldhouse and nine overall games against teams that advanced to the postseason last year. Purchase your tickets here for the season from the GS Ticket Office.
The Eagles will host a pair of exhibitions to tune up for the season, taking on Coker (Oct. 30) and Coastal Georgia (Nov. 5) at Hanner. The Coastal Georgia exhibition will be the first time Coach Howard will face her collegiate coach, Roger Hodge, on the hardwood. Hodge coached Howard during the 2002-03 season at Armstrong, when the Pirates won their only Peach Belt Conference title.
The regular season begins on Nov. 10, as the Eagles travel to WNIT participant Furman. The Eagles will then have a pair of games at home, taking on Kennesaw State (Nov. 17) and North Dakota (Nov. 20) at Hanner.
Afterwards, the Eagles wrap up November with a pair of road trips to WNIT participant Bethune-Cookman (Nov. 23) and Winthrop (Nov. 26) during Thanksgiving week.
December begins for Georgia Southern at Wofford (Dec. 1), then a quick trip up I-16 to NCAA participant Mercer (Dec. 7) precedes a western jaunt where the Eagles will travel to Ole Miss (Nov. 16), then fly to Las Vegas to participate in the 2019 Holiday Hoops Classic. Georgia Southern will take on WNIT participant Kent State (Dec. 19) and St. Francis Brooklyn (Dec. 20) in the tourney, to be held at the South Point Hotel and Casino.
The non-conference slate for the Eagles wraps up with a trip to New Orleans to take on Tulane on December 30.
Sun Belt play begins at Hanner for Georgia Southern by hosting ULM (Jan. 2) and Louisiana (Jan. 4). The first Sun Belt road trip takes the Eagles to NCAA participant Little Rock (Jan. 9) and Arkansas State (Jan. 11), followed by a three-game home swing at Hanner with GS hosting WNIT participants Troy (Jan. 16) and South Alabama (Jan. 18), plus their Southern vs. State Rivalry Series matchup with Georgia State (Jan. 25).
A trip to Coastal Carolina (Jan. 30) finishes the month of January, and the Eagles will open up February at Appalachian State (Feb. 1). Georgia Southern will host Little Rock (Feb. 6) and Arkansas State (Feb. 8) at Hanner, before traveling to Louisiana to take on ULM (Feb. 13) and Louisiana (Feb. 15). The final home week for the Eagles at Hanner has GS hosting Coastal Carolina (Feb. 20) and Appalachian State (Feb. 22) before wrapping up the regular season with three road games, at Texas State (Feb. 27), WNIT participant UT Arlington (Feb. 29) and Georgia State (March 7).
The 2020 Sun Belt Conference Championships will begin on Tuesday, March 11, with on-campus games leading into the bracketed quarterfinals, which take place in New Orleans on March 14-16.
