Women's Volleyball Announces 2008 Schedule
2008 Schedule
STORRS, Conn. (June 12, 2008) -
University of Connecticut women's volleyball coach Holly
Strauss-O'Brien released the
team's 2008 schedule on Thursday. The schedule will include two teams from the
2007 Final CSTV/AVCA Division I Coaches' Top 25 Poll along with two
teams who received votes for that poll.
The Huskies will open the season at the Northern Illinois University
Tournament in Dekalb, Ill. on Friday, Aug. 29 and will face the NU
Huskies along with Cleveland State and Chicago State.
UConn will next travel to
Albany, N.Y. for the Albany Tournament on Sept. 5-6. The Huskies will take on
Wright State, Central Connecticut State University and host, Albany. Last
season, UConn defeated in-state rival Central Connecticut 3-0 in
a televised match on Cox Sports Television. The
following weekend, UConn will head back out to East Lansing, Mich. for the
Michigan State Tournament. The Spartans finished the 2007 season
ranked 20th in the nation, according to the coaches' top 15 poll and
posted an overall record of 21-14. The Huskies will also face
Wisconsin-Milwaukee as well as Florida A&M at the Michigan State
Tournament as UConn has set a very competitive out of conference
schedule. The Huskies finally return to
Storrs, Conn. to host non-conference opponent Fairfield University in a 7:00
p.m. match on Wednesday, Sept. 17. The Fairfield match will begin a six-game
home stand for the Huskies with the following weekend of Sept. 19-20 being the
UConn Toyota Classic, in which UConn will play host to Cornell, Maine and Temple
in Gampel Pavilion. Finishing out the month of September will be the opening
of BIG EAST Conference play, as UConn will host Louisville on Friday, Sept. 26
at 7:00 p.m. and Cincinnati at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28. Louisville also
received votes in the final coaches' poll of 2007. UConn will begin October on
the road, as the Huskies travel to both Syracuse and Marquette for BIG EAST
matches during the first weekend of the month. University of Hartford will play
in Gampel Pavilion on Wednesday, Oct. 8 in a non-league battle before the
Huskies host Rutgers in conference action on Sunday, Oct. 12 at 2:00 p.m. Sacred
Heart will make the in-state trip to visit the Huskies in Storrs for a weekday
match-up on Oct. 15. The Huskies will spend two straight weekends on the road,
traveling to ranked opponent St. John's on Saturday, Oct. 18 for a 2:00 p.m. BIG
EAST battle. St. John's finished the 2007 season ranked 13th on the coaches'
poll. The following day, the Huskie will travel to Long Island for a
non-conference match before going to both Pittsburgh and West Virginia on Oct.
24 and 26 for BIG EAST matches. UConn will cap off the month of October with a
home match against conference opponent Seton Hall on Friday, October 31 at 8:00
p.m. BIG EAST opponent, Villanova, will come to Storrs on Sunday, Nov. 2
before Georgetown and South Florida travel up north the following weekend for
conference matches. The Huskies will honor their senior class prior to the
Sunday, Nov. 9 2:00 p.m. match as they wrap-up the year with their last home
match of the season. UConn will finish their regular season schedule with a trip
to DePaul on Friday, Nov. 14 followed by the last regular season contest match
at Notre Dame on Sunday, Nov. 16.
“As we approach our
2008 season, we are continuing to raise the bar for our program," said
Strauss-O'Brien. "We have to put together a challenging non-conference schedule
that will prepare us for our BIG EAST Conference competition and move us towards
the NCAA Tournament."
The 2007 Connecticut Huskies concluded this season 19-11 overall and 8-6 in the
BIG EAST. For the second consecutive, year the Huskies made it into postseason
play before falling to eventual BIG EAST Tournament Champion St. John's. -UCONN-
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