Dartmouth Announces 2018-19 Women’s Basketball Schedule

HANOVER, N.H. – Dartmouth's Gail Koziara Boudreaux '82 and Family Head Coach of Women's Basketball Belle Koclanes has announced the 2018-19 schedule for women's basketball.

Coming off their best season in ten years and first winning record since 2009, the Big Green enter a new season with a tough non-conference tilt that will get Dartmouth ready for another year of Ivy League play. This year's conference tournament will be held on the campus of Yale University at the John J. Lee Amphitheater at Payne Whitney Gymnasium on March 16-17.

"We are excited for our 2018-19 non-conference schedule," Koclanes said. "We want to contribute to the Ivy League's RPI with the opponents that we schedule. With our local rivalries we want to continue to build women's basketball in New England. We encourage the Upper Valley community and our fans to continue to support us this season."

"The Ivy League is the ninth best conference in the country and our non-conference schedule is to prepare us for that," Koclanes added. "To be the best you've got to beat the best, our theme is to level up and in order to do that you have to play teams that have competed in the NCAA Tournament and that are at the top of their conference."

Dartmouth kicks off its season at Leede Arena against Loyola Maryland (Nov. 9) before heading across state lines to take on Vermont (Nov. 11) for its first road test of the year.

Highlighting the non-conference schedule will be a trip out west with the first stop being in Las Vegas for the UNLV Lady Rebel Roundup (Nov. 25-26). Dartmouth's first opponent in Vegas is Middle Tennessee State who has made back-to-back trips to the WNIT and appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 2016. The Big Green will also face either the host UNLV who made the WNIT a season ago or UC Santa Barbara. This trip will send Nevada native Kealy Brown home to play in front of family.

Soon after, Dartmouth will head even further west to California for a meeting with Cal State Fullerton (Nov. 28). Isalys Quiñones will have a homecoming as well with a matchup at the University of San Diego (Dec. 1).

After returning to Hanover, Dartmouth has a four game homestand beginning on Dec. 5. The final opponent of the tilt will be against Buffalo. The Bulls made it to the sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament last season with wins over South Florida and Florida State.

Dartmouth takes on Granite State rival New Hampshire (Dec. 21) for the "Battle of New Hampshire" in Durham before taking on Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) opponent Boston College (Dec. 29) in Boston. Last year's 68-57 victory over BC was the first win in program history for the Big Green over an ACC team.

Wrapping up non-conference play, Dartmouth will host Binghamton (Dec. 31). The Bearcats advanced to the second round of the Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) a season ago.

Ivy League play opens for Dartmouth at Leede Arena on Jan. 19 when they begin the first of two straight meetings with Harvard who appeared in the WNIT last season.

The season continues with a four-game road trip beginning at Brown (Feb. 1), then last year's Ivy League WBI participant Yale (Feb. 2). The Big Green then travel to face Cornell (Feb. 8) and Columbia (Feb. 9).

A pivotal four game conference home stretch takes place in the middle of February with contests against Penn (Feb. 15) who appeared in the WNIT last year, defending Ivy league champion Princeton (Feb. 16), Yale (Feb. 22), and Brown (Feb. 23).

Dartmouth wraps up its final four regular season games at Princeton (Mar. 1) and at Penn (Mar. 2) before heading back to Leede Arena for its final two games against Columbia (Mar. 8) and Cornell (Mar. 9).

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