The schedule came out -- sort of one piece at a time -- earlier this month.
The women play only two non-conference games at home but have a very interesting schedule.
They play two games against non-MAC teams at Akron in November (the Zips will play the same teams on opposite nights). Next year the event will be in Kent. One of the teams KSU plays is Florida Gulf Coast, which is coached by Kent alum Karl Smesko. Kent beat his team in the Gulf Coast Showcase tournament last season, one of the signature wins of the year.
Over Thanksgiving, the team will play in Las Vegas in the Play4Kay Classic.
Last year's Thanksgiving tournament was the toughest Kent had every played in, opening with No. 5 Baylor, then Western Kentucky, then Gulf Coast. All of those teams eventually won their conferences.
This year's may be tougher. The Flashes open with Stanford, which made the Final Four last season. Six other teams in the tournament were conference champions, including Ohio State. The seventh is Memphis, where former coach Danny O'Banion is now associate head coach.
Most of the rest of the schedule is return matches with teams KSU played in non-conference games last year, along with a trip to Ann Arbor to play Michigan in December.
The Flashes open at Northern Kentucky Saturday, Nov. 11. Their home opener is against Detroit Mercy on Thursday, Nov 30.
Full details are in three separate posts on the blog at
http://wbbflashes.com. (As I said, the schedule came out in pieces over a week.)