Women???s Basketball Announces Complete 2006-07 Schedule
September 21, 2006 | Women's Basketball
BOSTON –Taking on their most challenging schedule to date, the 2006-07 Boston University women’s basketball team will face up to seven opponents that competed in the postseason, including Arizona State and Connecticut, which finished the 2005-06 season in the top 20 of the USA Today/ESPN Coaches and Association Press polls. The Terriers open their season with three consecutive road games before welcoming Canisius for their home opener on Sunday, Nov. 26.
BU will match up with up to six teams that made appearances in last year's NCAA Tournament and with a win over Dayton in the opening round of the Dartmouth Invitational on Dec. 1 the Terriers could face Duke University, which fell to Maryland in the national championship.
The Terriers open their season with three consecutive road games at Rhode Island (Nov. 14), the Univ. of Missouri at Kansas City (Nov. 18) and Northeastern (Nov. 21), before returning to Case Gym to host Canisius on Sunday, Nov. 26 in the season opener. Two days later BU will travel to Storrs, Conn., to take on perennial powerhouse UConn at 7:30. Defending Big East champion Connecticut finished No. 6 in the 2005-06 USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll.
In the beginning of December, BU will compete in the Arizona State Tournament in Tempe, Ariz., with Arizona State, Northern Arizona and Eastern Michigan. Arizona State made it to the Sweet 16 in 2005-06 and Northern Arizona appeared in the NCAA first round, while Eastern Michigan appeared in the postseason NIT. BU will host St. John’s on Dec. 17, and close out its non-conference schedule in Hanover, N.H. in the Dartmouth Tournament with Dartmouth, Dayton and NCAA finalist Duke.
In January, BU will open its conference slate at UMBC on Jan. 4 before hosting Vermont on Jan. 7. On Jan. 10 BU will travel to Stony Brook, a postseason-NIT qualifier, and then return to Case for a Jan. 14 match-up with Albany. BU will face UNH and Binghamton before hosting defending America East Champion Hartford on Jan. 31.
Binghamton University will host the 2006-07 America East Championship at the Events Center in Vestal, N.Y., beginning on March 8 and culminating with the championship game on Sunday, March 11. The semifinals and Championship game will be aired on America East-TV. Third-year head coach Kelly Greenberg has led the BU squad to two consecutive America East finals and returns 11 players from last year’s squad.
