Newport News, Va. – The Atlantic 10 has today announced its conference schedule for the 2018-19 campaign. The Fordham women's basketball team will play home and home series with Davidson, Dayton, and Saint Louis, and have four nationally televised contests, one at home and three on the road, over the course of the conference slate.
"We hope that our challenging out-of-conference schedule will prepare us for the intense battles we anticipate in the A-10," Head coach
Stephanie Gaitley said, "This year we kick off with an away national TV game against the reigning champs of George Washington. We are excited to have four nationally televised games that will continue to promote our program and university."
The Rams and Colonials will open 2019 in our nation's capital on Saturday, January 5
th televised by CBS Sports Network. Fordham will then have CBS SN games the next two Saturdays, as well, at Saint Louis on January 13
th and at Dayton on January 20
th. In between, the Rams host Richmond and VCU on back-to-back Wednesdays, January 13
th and 20
th. Rounding out January will be a home game against Davidson on Sunday, January 27
th, sandwiched between two Thursday road contests – at Rhode Island on January 24
th and at La Salle on January 31
st.
Fordham has three straight home contests to begin February, welcoming Duquesne on Sunday, February 3
rd for the team's fourth and final CBS SN contest, Saint Louis on Wednesday, February 6
th, and George Mason on Sunday, the 10
th. The Rams will then head on the road for two road games over four days, first at Davidson on Wednesday, February 13
th and then at St. Bonaventure on Saturday, February 16
th. After a bye week, Fordham will wrap up its home games against Massachusetts on Sunday, February 24
th and Dayton on Wednesday, February 27
th, and cap the regular season down in Philadelphia on March 2
nd, taking on Saint Joseph's.
All times will be announced at a later date.
The 2019 Atlantic 10 championship will continue in the same format as the last two years in which first round contests will take place on campus sites of the higher seeds outside the top-two. Those games will be played on Tuesday, March 5
th. The remaining schools will then head to Duquesne's A.J. Palumbo Center in Pittsburgh for the rest of the tournament over the weekend.
The Rams finished 24-10 a year ago, 11-5 in conference action, and matched the program's longest postseason run by reaching the WNIT Sweet Sixteen for a second time. It was the fifth time in the past six seasons under Gaitley that Fordham has earned a postseason berth. The team's 24 wins were also fifth-most in school history.
