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Temple Announces 2012-13 Women’s Basketball Schedule
9.18.12 | Women's Basketball
2012-13 Women's Basketball Schedule
PHILADELPHIA – Fans will get many early looks at the 2012-13 Temple women's basketball team, as the season schedule was announced today and includes four home contests in the month of November. The Owls, coming off a 23-10 season and an appearance in the WNIT Third Round, will play 13 teams that appeared in the postseason last year including six NCAA participants.
Temple's final season in the Atlantic 10 Conference has the Owls playing 14 of the 15 possible opponents, including new members VCU (home) and Butler (away). BIG EAST Conference play will begin in 2013-14 for the Owls, but they will face five opponents out of the BIG EAST this season.
“Our schedule is set up to prepare us to do well in the Atlantic 10,” said fifth-year head coach Tonya Cardoza, “but we also get a look at the future by playing some BIG EAST teams. Starting our season with home games will be great for our team because we're really young this year. Our players will have to adjust quickly to playing at this level and I think this schedule will help them do that.”
The season opener on Friday, Nov. 9 has Temple at home facing Montana, a longtime powerhouse out of the Big Sky Conference. After a road trip to Nebraska, a 2012 NCAA Tournament participant, the Owls return home for games against Seton Hall, Northeastern and Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights, a longtime rival of Temple and a BIG EAST member, also earned a NCAA Tournament berth last year.
Temple will play one nationally-televised game in the regular season when it travels across town to Saint Joseph's on Sunday, Feb. 17. That game will air live on CBS Sports Network at 2:00 p.m., and along with being an A-10 contest it will also be the Owls' final Big 5 game of the season.
After opening the month of December with a home game against Syracuse, Temple will play its next six games on the road. Highlights include games at Auburn on Dec. 16 and at Michigan State on Dec. 29. The 2013 calendar year begins with a road swing to Washington, D.C., to face Georgetown (Jan. 2) and Howard (Jan. 4). The Hoyas advanced to the NCAA Second Round a year ago and to the Sweet 16 the year before.
The Owls begin A-10 play on the road at defending conference champ and 2012 NCAA Sweet 16 team St. Bonaventure on Sunday, Jan. 13.
The A-10 schedule is balanced between home and road contests with seven of each, and Temple will never play more than two in a row either at home or away. After the final road trip to Dayton and Butler in late February, the Owls return home for their final regular season game against Fordham on March 3.
The majority of this year's Atlantic 10 Tournament returns to Saint Joseph's March 8-10, while the championship game will be played in Brooklyn, N.Y. at the Barclays Center in conjunction with the A-10 Men's Basketball Tournament semifinals.
“This being our last season in the A-10, we obviously want it to be a memorable one,” said Cardoza. “We've been so close to the top for a couple years now and it's time for us to get to that next level.”
Temple finished second in the A-10 regular season for a second year in a row in 2011-12 with a record of 13-1, but was taken out by Dayton in the semifinals of the A-10 Tournament, also for a second-straight year. The Owls missed out on an at-large NCAA berth, but made a run in the WNIT until losing to Syracuse in the third round.
PHILADELPHIA – Fans will get many early looks at the 2012-13 Temple women's basketball team, as the season schedule was announced today and includes four home contests in the month of November. The Owls, coming off a 23-10 season and an appearance in the WNIT Third Round, will play 13 teams that appeared in the postseason last year including six NCAA participants.
Temple's final season in the Atlantic 10 Conference has the Owls playing 14 of the 15 possible opponents, including new members VCU (home) and Butler (away). BIG EAST Conference play will begin in 2013-14 for the Owls, but they will face five opponents out of the BIG EAST this season.
“Our schedule is set up to prepare us to do well in the Atlantic 10,” said fifth-year head coach Tonya Cardoza, “but we also get a look at the future by playing some BIG EAST teams. Starting our season with home games will be great for our team because we're really young this year. Our players will have to adjust quickly to playing at this level and I think this schedule will help them do that.”
The season opener on Friday, Nov. 9 has Temple at home facing Montana, a longtime powerhouse out of the Big Sky Conference. After a road trip to Nebraska, a 2012 NCAA Tournament participant, the Owls return home for games against Seton Hall, Northeastern and Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights, a longtime rival of Temple and a BIG EAST member, also earned a NCAA Tournament berth last year.
Temple will play one nationally-televised game in the regular season when it travels across town to Saint Joseph's on Sunday, Feb. 17. That game will air live on CBS Sports Network at 2:00 p.m., and along with being an A-10 contest it will also be the Owls' final Big 5 game of the season.
After opening the month of December with a home game against Syracuse, Temple will play its next six games on the road. Highlights include games at Auburn on Dec. 16 and at Michigan State on Dec. 29. The 2013 calendar year begins with a road swing to Washington, D.C., to face Georgetown (Jan. 2) and Howard (Jan. 4). The Hoyas advanced to the NCAA Second Round a year ago and to the Sweet 16 the year before.
The Owls begin A-10 play on the road at defending conference champ and 2012 NCAA Sweet 16 team St. Bonaventure on Sunday, Jan. 13.
The A-10 schedule is balanced between home and road contests with seven of each, and Temple will never play more than two in a row either at home or away. After the final road trip to Dayton and Butler in late February, the Owls return home for their final regular season game against Fordham on March 3.
The majority of this year's Atlantic 10 Tournament returns to Saint Joseph's March 8-10, while the championship game will be played in Brooklyn, N.Y. at the Barclays Center in conjunction with the A-10 Men's Basketball Tournament semifinals.
“This being our last season in the A-10, we obviously want it to be a memorable one,” said Cardoza. “We've been so close to the top for a couple years now and it's time for us to get to that next level.”
Temple finished second in the A-10 regular season for a second year in a row in 2011-12 with a record of 13-1, but was taken out by Dayton in the semifinals of the A-10 Tournament, also for a second-straight year. The Owls missed out on an at-large NCAA berth, but made a run in the WNIT until losing to Syracuse in the third round.
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