BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic University women’s basketball team has announced its Conference USA schedule for the upcoming 2019-20 season. The Owls will play each league opponent once during the regular season and will face in-state rival FIU twice. The season will conclude with Bonus Play against opponents that will be determined at a later time.
The Owls open 2020 in the Lone Star State with games at UTSA (Jan. 2) and UTEP (Jan. 4). FAU will continue with Texas teams the next week against defending champions Rice (Jan. 9) and North Texas (Jan. 11) at home. The team will hit the road again the following week at Middle Tennessee (Jan. 16) and at UAB (Jan. 18).
FAU hosts Charlotte (Jan. 23) and Old Dominion (Jan. 25) before taking on WKU (Jan. 30) and Marshall (Feb. 1) away from home. The Owls will take on rival FIU in Miami on Feb. 8 and then face Southern Miss (Feb. 13) and Louisiana Tech (Feb. 15) on the recently-named Abessinio Court at FAU Arena. In the final guaranteed home game of the season, FAU will host FIU on Feb. 20.
Following the conclusion of the scheduled games, C-USA will announce the Bonus Play schedule. Teams will be grouped based on their finish in the league and will be scheduled to play four opponents to finish out the final three weeks of the regular season. The potential dates are Feb. 22, Feb. 26, Feb. 29, March 5 and March 7. One of those dates will be a bye game.
FAU’s non-conference schedule will be announced at a later time.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 CheriBundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
