Chicago State Faces UIC in 2022-23 Home Opener
The Chicago State women's basketball team will open the home portion of their 2022-23 season with a men's and women's doubleheader on Monday, November 14 with the women taking the court at 5:30 p.m. against UIC.
The Cougars opened the season with an 84-57 loss at Butler in Andrea Williams first game as the head coach at CSU.
UIC enters the contest with a 1-0 record following a 52-50 win at IUPUI. Monday's game will be the 26th all-time meeting between the two schools with the Flames owning a 21-5 advantage in the series. The Flames have won seven consecutive games in the series with the last Cougars win coming at the JCC in 2000, a 52-49 CSU win.
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The CSU women's basketball team will play their second game in three days, traveling to Evansville, Indiana on Wednesday, November 16 to face Evansville at 11 a.m. at the Ford Center. The Purple Aces are 1-1 following a road win at Eastern Kentucky (W 89-81) and a road loss at Iowa (L 115-62). Evansville is 7-0 all time against Chicago State with the last game played in 2019 in Evansville, a 76-42 win.
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Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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