University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
Women's Basketball Team Releases '06-'07 Schedule
9/21/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
2006-07 Schedule
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Sept. 21, 2006
HATTIESBSURG, Miss. -- - Southern Miss Head Women's Basketball Coach Joye Lee-McNelis today released the 2006-07 schedule that features three NCAA Tournament teams, Tulsa, Louisiana Tech and Stephen F. Austin, and two others, Rice and Jackson State, who made WNIT appearances.
The schedule also includes 16 Conference USA games as well as non-conference games against Arkansas-Little Rock, Birmingham Southern, Jacksonville State, Louisiana-Monroe, Wisconsin, Mississippi State and Centenary. Southern Miss plays host to its own Lady Eagle Classic and participate in one other tournament at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
The Lady Eagles open the regular season Nov. 10 at Birmingham Southern, before hosting Stephen F. Austin on Nov. 12 and Jacksonville State on Nov. 17. Southern Miss travels to Jackson State on Nov. 21 before hosting its own Lady Eagle Classic, Nov. 25-26, and will travel Louisiana-Monroe, Nov. 28. Southern Miss opens the month of December with a trip to Wisconsin, returns home to host Arkansas-Little Rock, Dec. 7, and in-state rival Mississippi State on Dec. 10. Southern Miss also plays in its second tournament, traveling to Corpus Christi, Texas, for the Flint Hills Resources Islander Invitational, Dec. 16-17. The Lady Eagles close out the month of December hosting Centenary, Dec. 20 and C-USA foe UCF, Dec. 31.
Conference USA again plays in two divisions, East and West. The East teams consist of Southern Miss, East Carolina, UAB, Memphis, UCF and Marshall, while the West has Tulane, Houston, Rice, Tulsa, UTEP and SMU. The Lady Eagles open their home C-USA schedule against UCF, followed by Memphis, UAB, SMU, Rice, Houston, East Carolina and Marshall. The Lady Eagles will travel to East Carolina, Marshall, UCF, Tulane, UTEP, Memphis and UAB.
"This schedule is more challenging because the staff believed it was time for this young group to take another step," McNelis said. "We are going to be challenged early with the likes of Stephen F. Austin, Louisiana Tech, Wisconsin, Louisiana-Monroe and Mississippi State. I believe our non-conference schedule will prepare us for our conference play.
"Our conference schedule will be a challenge for us as well. We have to go on the road several long stretches. We start out with two games on the road then a four-game stretch right in the meat of our schedule. The league has a lot of returning players from last year. As good as our league was last year, it's going to better this year."
Regular season concludes with the C-USA Women's Basketball Championship presented by Aéropostale March 1-4, in Tulsa, Okla. The complete, schedule includes:
Nov. 10, at Birmingham Southern; 12, Stephen F. Austin; 17, Jacksonville State; 21, at Jackson State; 24-25, Lady Eagle Classic (Grambling, East Kentucky, Louisiana Tech); 28, at Louisiana-Monroe; Dec. 1, at Wisconsin; 7 Arkansas-Little Rock; 10, Mississippi State; 16-17, at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Tournament (Cal Poly, St. Mary's-California, Texas A&M-CC); 20, Centenary; 31, UCF; Jan. 5, at East Carolina; 7, at Marshall; 12, Memphis; 14, UAB; 20, at UCF; 26, at Tulane; 28 at UTEP; Feb. 1, at Tulsa; 4, SMU; 9, Rice; 11, Houston; 15, at Memphis; 17, at UAB, 22, East Carolina; 24, Marshall; Mar. 1-4, at C-USA Women's Basketball Championship presented by Aéropostale (Tulsa, Okla.).
