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| Men's and women's basketball face
tough challenges in 2004-2005 season |
by Hugh Kellenberger
Editor-In-Chief
Appalachian State University men’s basketball will travel
to four major schools during the 2004-2005 season, released as part
of the schedule announced by head coach Houston Fancher.
The Mountaineers will travel to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville
in the second game of the season, Nov. 24. In addition, they will
head to the University of South Carolina at Columbia, Vanderbilt
University and the University of Miami (Fla.).
While all four of the premium non-conference match-ups will be away
from the Holmes Convocation Center, four of the first six contests
of the season are at home.
The Mountaineers will host Erskine University in the season opener,
as well as Tennessee Technological University, James Madison University
and the University of South Carolina Upstate (previously USC-Spartanburg).
Appalachian State faced Tennessee Tech, James Madison, South Carolina
and Vanderbilt in the 2003-2004 season. They managed to steal only
victory out of the four, knocking off James Madison 58-55.
Milligan College and Longwood University will also travel to the
Holmes Convocation Center for non-conference games.
Milligan, Erskine and USC-Upstate all play below the Division I
level. Longwood is in it’s first season of playing almost
entirely Division I opponents.
The Southern Conference slate of games begins Dec. 11, with the
Mountaineers heading to Wofford University. ASU lost 99-92 last
season to the Terriers.
Outside of the traditional home and away contests with other teams
in the Northern Division of the Southern Conference, College of
Charleston, the Citadel and Furman University will all head to Boone.
The Mountaineers will travel to Davidson College and Georgia Southern
University.
“We are excited about the competitive
schedule that we face next season,” Fancher said in a press
release from the ASU Office of Sports Information. “Not only
do we play two teams apiece from the ACC and SEC, but we get to
continue some very competitive series from seasons past.”
The Mountaineers return nine letterwinners from last season’s
squad that that went 9-21 overall and 4-12 in SoCon play. |
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by Hugh Kellenberger
Editor-In-Chief
Women’s basketball head coach Adrienne Shuler is putting together
a schedule that proves to be the best you have to play the best.
University of Maryland will head to the Holmes Convocation Center
for the season opener on Nov. 19. Maryland advanced to the second
round of the 2004 NCAA Tournament.
They become the first ACC squad to visit Boone since Wake Forest
in 2000.
Maryland returns it’s top two scorers and four players who
started regularly during the 2003-2004 season.
Two days after Maryland, the Mountaineers will travel to Clemson
University to face the 2004 Women’s National Invitational
Tournament (NIT) participant Tigers.
ASU has never won against Clemson, although the last match-up was
in 1996.
At the Florida State Thanksgiving Tournament Appalachian State can
face possibly its third ACC opponent in a row.
The field and match-ups have yet to be determined.
Host Florida State advanced to the second round of the WNIT last
season.
The non-conference slate of games wraps up with match-ups against
Campbell University at home and Coastal Carolina University and
High Point University on the road.
Each Southern Conference school will head to the Holmes Convocation
Center, in addition to ASU facing each at their own arena.
One highlight of the conference schedule is the home and away with
the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
The Mocs finished the SoCon schedule last year 20-0 and made it
the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
“Our schedule is the best that we have put together in our
three years at Appalachian,” Shuler said in a press release
from the ASU Office of Sports Information.
“It is a very challenging slate, but an exciting one considering
all the top-notch programs which we will have the opportunity to
face, not just on the road but right here in Boone.”
The Mountaineers return three starters and nine letterwinners from
last season’s squad, which finished 7-21 overall and 6-14
in league play.
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