The University of Maine women’s basketball program has announced their non-conference opponents and dates for the upcoming 2022-23 season, with game times to be announced at a later time.
Maine will begin their season on November 7 and will play 13 non-conference games, with five of those at home at Memorial Gym (The Pit). The Black Bears are coming off a 20-12 campaign in 2021-22 (15-3 in America East), losing the America East Championship game in Orono to the University of Albany. They accepted an invite to the WNIT, where they had their season ended by Boston College in the first round. Maine returns four players that saw some significant minutes last year in senior guard Anne Simon, juniors Olivia Rockwood and Caroline Bornemann, and sophomore Paula Gallego. The team has also acquired Miss Maine Basketball Jaycie Christopher, who decided to transfer before beginning a career at Boston University. Here are the opponents and dates for the non-conference portion of the schedule, with the conference schedule still to be announced-
Monday, November 7 at James Madison *season opener
Monday, November 14 at Massachusetts
Saturday, November 19 vs Yale *home opener
Monday, November 21 vs Northeastern
Friday, November 25 vs Kansas *at St. Mary’s
Saturday, November 26 vs Niagra *at St. Mary’s
Monday, November 28 at Gonzaga
Friday, December 2 vs Princeton
Sunday, December 4 at Rhode Island
Thursday, December 8 vs Fordham
Sunday, December 11 vs Army
Sunday, December 18 at Harvard
Thursday, December 22 at Milwaukee
