Women's Basketball Announces 2016-17 Schedule

Posted: Aug 24, 2016

2016-17 Haverford Women's Basketball Schedule

HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College women's basketball team has announced its 2016-17 slate, with 12 home dates scheduled for Gooding '84 Arena this season. All the action tips off on November 15 as the Fords travel to Montclair State for the campaign lid lifter.

Haverford will begin the year with a three-game road swing, as the DeSales Tip-Off Tournament will feature games with the host Bulldogs (Nov. 19) and a to be announced opponent (Nov. 20). The Fords open the 2016 home season as the Centennial Conference portion of the schedule tips off with a game against Ursinus (Nov. 22). Haverford makes the short trip to Bryn Mawr (Nov. 29) to wrap up the month of November.

Before the winter break, Haverford hosts a three-game homestand with 2016 NCAA tournament team Franklin & Marshall (Dec. 1), Stevens (Dec. 3) and Muhlenberg (Dec. 7). The last contest of the 2016 calendar year will be a trip to Maryland for a face-off with Washington College (Dec. 10).

After the winter holidays conclude, a busy month of January starts with games dotting the landscape of the first month of 2017. Haverford travels to Dickinson (Jan. 7) and hosts Gettysburg (Jan. 10) ahead of a trip to McDaniel (Jan. 12). A Saturday showdown with Johns Hopkins (Jan. 14) precedes a non-conference home game against Immaculata (Jan. 16). The first Hood Cup contest against Swarthmore is slated for January 18. The month concludes with road contests at Franklin & Marshall (Jan. 21) and Ursinus (Jan. 26) and home games with Bryn Mawr (Jan. 24) and Dickinson (Jan. 28).

February sees Haverford host Washington College (Feb. 1), McDaniel (Feb. 11) and Swarthmore (Feb. 15) while traveling to Gettysburg (Feb. 4), Muhlenberg (Feb. 7) and Johns Hopkins (Feb. 9).

Under the direction of ninth-year Head Coach Bobbi Morgan, the Fords will be looking to reach the Centennial Conference Tournament for a program-record sixth consecutive season in 2016-17. After a 15 win season in which the Fords finished fifth in the nation in opponent field goal percentage.

Haverford will return four of its five starters and its entire bench as the team loses only one graduating senior in Olivia Walsh. The team's leading scorer, Sierra Berkel (11.1 ppg), and third-leading scorer, Samantha Wetzel (9.5 ppg), All-Centennial Conference selections in 2016, will look to anchor the offense to postseason success.