Coppin State Women's Basketball 2018-19 Schedule Released

   
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BALTIMORE, Maryland -- Coppin State women's basketball program released its 2018-19 schedule today with local rival UMBC highlighting the only home game of the non-conference slate. The Eagles will spend most of its non-conference competition on the road, including battles with five NCAA Tournament teams from a year ago (Virginia, Minnesota, Maryland, Florida Gulf Coast and runner-up Mississippi State).

Television information and game times will be announced at a later date. If you don't want to miss out on all MEACtion, season tickets are available for as low as $75! This provides access to both the women and the men's games and are available for purchase online now at coppinstatesports.com.

The Lady Eagles will begin the 2018-19 season taking th e country roads to West Virginia as it battles a Mountaineer squad who made the WNIT Final Four a season ago on November 6th. CSU will then return to Maryland to face Brenda Freese's Terrapins in College Park. The perennial powerhouse finished last season 16th in the AP Poll while the game will take place on November 9th.

Coppin will participate in its one and only non-conference tilt at the PEC, on Wednesday November 14th, as it fights for bragging rights against UMBC.

The ladies will next test will surely be a challenge, as four days later it heads to Starkville, Mississippi to take on last year's championship game runner-up. Mississippi State lost to Notre Dame in overtime of the 2017-18 national championship, falling on an immaculate buzzer-beater that will go down in March Madness lore.
 
Coppin State will get a well-needed two weeks off for the Thanksgiving holiday before kicking it into high gear with a span of five games over the first two weeks of December. CSU will head back to West Virginia to take on Marshall on December 1st, before turning around and tipping off in Charlottesville against second round participant UVA the next night.

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Coppin then heads north to face Ohio University (December 8th), Round of 32 qualifier Minnesota (December 12th) and Niagara (December 15th).

The Lady Eagles follow-up its wintry tour with a getaway tournament to sunny Fort Myers, FL for the Hilton Garden Inn FGCU classic hosted by Florida Gulf Coast University. CSU will face the host Eagles (who were NCAA Tournament bound a season ago) on December 19th, before rounding out the two-day trip with the UAB Blazers on the 20th. 
 
Coppin's last non-conference opponent of the campaign takes the Eagles to familiar territory (Norfolk, Virginia) as it dukes it out with the Monarchs of Old Dominion.
 
MEAC action will open with Savannah State coming to town for its final visit to Baltimore as a division I opponent on January 5th. The Lady Eagles will follow that by heading across the Bay Bridge to face Delaware State (January 7th). The Eagles will stay in the PEC for the ladies next two matchups, bringing Norfolk State (January 12th) and South Carolina State (January 14th) to town.
 
Next, Coppin will then head down to the Tar Heel State for the weekend to face the Eagles of North Carolina Central (January 19th), followed by the 2018 MEAC champion Aggies of North Carolina A&T (January 21st). Shortly thereafter, Coppin State can enjoy Charm City for the next two weeks as it hosts Florida A&M (January 26th), Bethune-Cookman (January 28th), and crosstown rival Morgan State (February 2nd).
 
Coppin women's basketball will head off on it's longest road trip of the MEAC slate, as it travels to coastal foes Savannah State (February 9th), South Carolina State (February 11th), and Maryland Eastern Shore (February 16th). The Eagles come home for its final two home games of the year, battling Howard in the annual homecoming game on February 23rd, before culminating the senior's farewell tour with Delaware State on February 25th.

Coppin State will round out the regular season on the road once again, heading to Norfolk for a date with the Spartans of NSU (March 2nd), before ending the 2018-19 campaign on the East Side at Morgan State.
 
The MEAC Tournament will be held in the Norfolk Scope Arena March 11 – 16 in Norfolk, VA.
 
Coppin returns four players from last season including Second Team All-MEAC Chance Graham, junior Oliwadamilola Oloyede, and sophomores Tsahai Corbie (redshirted) and November 21st MEAC Rookie of the Week, Maraiyah Smith.
 
Head Coach Dewayne Burroughs brought in two Division II transfers from Roberts Wesleyan (Brooke Fields) and University of the District of Columbia (Kaiya Coleman). Burroughs added a talented freshmen class as well with Diamond Adams, E'Mya Price, Jalynda Salley, Elan Wali, and Jania Wright all fighting for playing time.
 
The Coppin State Lady Eagles play in the Physical Education Complex Arena on the campus of Coppin State University and is led by third year head coach Dewayne Burroughs.

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