9/23/2004

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Georgetown University women's basketball team has announced its schedule for the upcoming season. The Hoyas 27-game schedule, which opens at home against George Washington on Friday, Nov. 19, features seven teams that made the NCAA Tournament in 2003-04 and five that garnered bids to the 2004 WNIT Tournament. Five of the opponents the Hoyas have never faced including Utah, Army, Canisius, Kent State and Clemson. Times may change due to some television opportunities still being finalized.

The Hoyas will host six games against teams that advanced to the postseason last year, including match-ups with George Washington and George Mason to go along with conference tilts against Boston College, West Virginia and 2004 national champion Connecticut. The six road trips against 2004 postseason squads begin at Richmond and then GU faces Kent State in the LaSalle Tournament before traveling to Clemson, Rutgers, Villanova and Notre Dame.

GU?s 2003-04 season starts with the Hoyas trading a home game for an away game for the first four contests. After the season opener at home against GWU Georgetown makes a stop at Utah before hosting Delaware and then traveling to Richmond. A four game home stretch takes the Hoyas into the holiday season as GU hosts Army, George Mason, Lafayette and Canisius in the month of December.

The Hoyas will be spending the Holiday season in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On December 28-29 GU will be a participant in the LaSalle Invitational held at LaSalle University. GU tips off against the host to begin the tournament and will then face Kent State. Georgetown?s final out of conference opponent is Clemson on January 2 in Clemson, South Carolina.

The BIG EAST schedule starts on January 5, when the Hoyas host B.C. Georgetown tips off against St. John?s, Seton Hall, Syracuse, Villanova and West Virginia twice this season and battles the other BIG EAST schools once. In McDonough Gym GU entertains Boston College, St. John?s, Pittsburgh, Seton Hall, West Virginia, Connecticut, Villanova and Syracuse. The Blue and Gray will travel to Seton Hall, Rutgers, Villanova, Providence, Syracuse, Notre Dame, West Virginia and St. John?s.

The BIG EAST Championship will be held March 5-8 at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Conn.

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Complete 2004-05 Women's Basketball Schedule - Times Subject to Change