North Carolina State University Athletics
Wolfpack Women Release 2000-01 Schedule
8/17/2000 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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RALEIGH, N.C. - NC State has announced its women's basketball schedule for the 2000-01 campaign, and once again the Wolfpack Women will face some of the top teams in the nation. The schedule features 13 games against teams that competed in the NCAA Tournament last year as well as eight WNIT teams.
"Playing good competition is important to develop your team into a strong national contender," commented NC State head coach Kay Yow. "A tough schedule gives you many checkpoints to see where you stand compared to the best teams and what you need to do to continue to compete at that level."
The Wolfpack will open the season with the GlaxoWellcome Invitational, to be held in Reynolds Coliseum. Other teams in the annual event include Oregon, Wisconsin and Elon. Oregon returns four starters from last year's top 25 team and should be ranked high heading into the tournament. Wisconsin returns its three top players off last year's WNIT championship team.
"We are really excited to have such a top-quality field for our tournament," said Yow. "It will be a great test for us early on to see where we stand against some tough competition."
The Wolfpack Women will then pack their bags and head to Hawaii for the Thanksgiving break to compete in the traditionally strong field at the Wahine Classic. After playing three games in Hawaii, NC State will travel to Columbia, S.C., to face SEC foe South Carolina.
NC State's first of three national TV appearances will come on Dec. 9 in the Four in the Fall tournament in Austin, Texas. The Wolfpack will face Texas Tech, a team that advanced to the NCAA regional finals a year ago, in a game broadcast by the FOX network.
After non-conference games with East Carolina and traditional Atlantic-10 power George Washington, the Wolfpack Women will head into the always tough ACC schedule.
On. Jan. 21, NC State will take a break from conference play to host Iowa State in the ACC/Big XII Challenge to be nationally televised on ESPN2. The Cyclones ended the season a year ago ranked in the top 10 of both national polls.
In addition to its two non-conference national TV appearances, NC State will have an ACC contest against Duke televised on ESPN2 and three other league games on regional sports networks.
Coach Yow enters the season only 11 wins shy of her 600th career victory. She will become only the fifth women's basketball coach to reach that milestone.
