Ladyjacks Release 2011-12 Schedule
8/22/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Aug. 22, 2011
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Second-year head coach Brandon Schneider has announced the release of the upcoming 2011-12 schedule for the Ladyjack basketball team. SFA will take on competition from the SEC, Conference USA, Great West and the Sun Belt before opening up the SLC season on January 7 on the road at Southeastern Louisiana.
"Our non-conference schedule while once again very challenging, does have much greater balance between home and away contests than it did a year ago," Schneider said. "We're certain that our non-league schedule, highlighted by four Conference USA opponents, two Sun Belt opponents, and one SEC opponent, will prepare us for a much-improved Southland Conference slate. With an extremely young team and nine new players, it will be critical that we take advantage of every opportunity to improve, grow, and mature as a unit."
Six of the first nine games of the season will be played away from Johnson Coliseum. SFA will open the year on the road at Louisiana-Monroe on Nov. 11 and will then host Grambling on Nov. 16 for the home opener.
The Ladyjacks will also take part in the Southern Mississippi Thanksgiving Tournament (Nov. 25-26) in Hattiesburg, MS, which will involve SFA, Southern Miss, Georgia Southern and Jacksonville State.
In December, SFA will travel to the likes of Arkansas, UT-Pan American and SMU. Also included in the final month of 2011 will be non-conference home games against St. Edwards, Arkansas State and Rice.
SFA begins the 2012 calendar year with a New Years Day tilt at Tulsa on Jan. 1 for the final non-conference game of the season. Six days later the Ladyjacks begin their journey for a conference title when they travel to Southeastern Louisiana on Jan. 7, the first of 16 games on the league slate. Home games with Central Arkansas, UT-Arlington and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi are also included in January, bunched in with road games with UTSA and Piney Woods rival Sam Houston State.
Six of the nine games in February come against divisional opponents, while the marquee game of the month comes on Feb. 4 when the Ladyjacks host fellow 2010-11 SLC champion McNeese State. SFA's home finale will come on Feb. 29 against Sam Houston State.
The Ladyjacks will play just one regular season game in March, a road contest at Northwestern State March 3 before the Southland Conference Tournament begins in Katy for the fifth consecutive season on March 6 at the Merrell Center.
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