Riverdale, NY (September 8, 2004)- The 2004-05 Manhattan College women's basketball schedule was finalized recently, it was announced by Manhattan College Director of Athletics Bob Byrnes. The schedule will feature 13 home games, including one television appearance against Siena at Draddy Gymnasium on January 30.
The Lady Jaspers will begin their schedule with an exhibition game at home against the New York Gazelles on November 12. The regular season will begin a week later, on November 19, as the Lady Jaspers will travel across the Bronx to take on Fordham.
After traveling to Syracuse on November 24, the Lady Jaspers will host Bucknell on November 28 in the regular season home opener. Later that week, the MAAC regular season will begin as Manhattan will play host to Iona on December 2 and then will travel to Fairfield on December 5.
Non-conference play will resume with three consecutive home games, beginning with a contest against Dartmouth on December 12. Fresno State will come to Draddy Gym on December 17, and on December 20, Manhattan will host MAC regular season champion Miami-Ohio, which advanced to the second round of the WNIT last season. The non-conference schedule will conclude with three road games, beginning with a game at Wagner on December 28. The Lady Jaspers then will face Villanova (December 30) and Colorado (January 2), two teams that made the NCAA Tournament and were nationally ranked at the end of last season.
The Lady Jaspers will return home to resume MAAC play against Niagara (January 8) and Canisius (January 10). MAAC conference games will make up the rest of the schedule, concluding with the 2005 MAAC Women's Basketball Championships, to be held March 3-6 at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, NY.
Manhattan will return four starters from last year's team that posted an 11-18 overall record and a 6-12 mark in the MAAC in their first season under head coach Myndi Hill. Manhattan will also welcome seven newcomers to a team that will return five letterwinners.
