Chicago State Set to open 2022-23 Season at Butler
The Chicago State women's basketball team will open the 2022-23 season at Butler on Wednesday, November 9 at 6 p.m. at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Cougars have a change of leadership at the head coaching position following a 4-23 record a season ago and veteran coach Andrea Williams will make her CSU coaching debut against the Bulldogs.
Butler was 1-27 last season and also had a coaching change following the season. Austin Parkinson will make his Bulldogs debut against Williams and the Cougars.
This will be the third all-time meeting between the two teams with the Bulldogs holding a 2-0 advantage in the series. The two teams first played during the 1987-88 season with Butler earning a 50-45 win, then again during the 1990-91 season, an 86-64 Bulldogs victory.
Information on how to follow the Cougars on Wednesday is below:
| Chicago State Cougars at Butler Bulldogs |
| Date | Time |
Wednesday, November 8Â // 6 p.m. CT |
| Location |
Indianapolis, Indiana // Hinkle Fieldhouse |
| Television |
FloSports |
| Live Stats |
Live Stats |
| Game Notes |
Chicago State Notes |
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About Chicago State
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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