Cougars Travel to Twin Cities for Back-to-Back Games
The Chicago State women's basketball team will travel to Minneapolis, Minnesota to face the University of Minnesota on Monday, December 12 at 7 p.m. at Wiliams Arena. The Cougars will stay in the Twin Cities to play St. Thomas Wednesday, December 14 at 7 p.m.
Chicago State enters the contest with an 0-11 record following a 93-71 loss at Georgia Southern last Friday. Minnesota is 5-5 overall and 1-1 in the Big Ten Conference following an 87-64 loss at Iowa Saturday. Monday's matchup will be the third all-time meeting between the Cougars and Gophers with Minnesota holding a 2-0 advantage in the series, both games played in Minneapolis (12/11/93, 95-47 and 12/2/06, 72-34).
Last Time Out...
The Chicago State women's basketball team dropped a 93-71 decision at Georgia Southern last Friday in a rare morning tip at Hanner Fieldhouse in Statesboro, Georiga. The Cougars dropped to 0-11 with the loss with freshman Jacia Cunningham scoring a game-high 19 points, and Tae'lor Willard added 13 and Janiah Newell tallied 10 in the loss. Chicago State led by one after the first quarter but trailed by five, 39-34, at the halftime break. The Eagles pulled away in the third, outscoring the Cougars 28-14 en route to the 22-point win. Georgia Southern entered the game averaging just over 94 points per game (94.2), were outscoring their opponents by over 35 points per game (35.2) and had eclipsed 100 points in the two games leading up to the game with CSU.
Independent Status
Chicago State and Hartford are the only two Division I programs playing an independent schedule during the 2022–23 season. CSU left the Western Athletic Conference following the 2021–22 season while Hartford began a transition to Division III in the 2021–22 school year, and left the America East Conference in July 2022. Hartford has announced it will join the D-III Commonwealth Coast Conference in July 2023.
Before 2022, the last D-I independent school had been NJIT, which was forced to go independent when its then-current home of the Great West Conference collapsed in 2013 due to conference realignment. NJIT would eventually find a home in the ASUN Conference in 2015, and is now in the America East.
Here's where to watch and follow:
| Chicago State Cougars at Minnesota Golden Gophers |
| Date | Time |
Monday, December 12 | 7 p.m. |
| Location |
Williams Arena | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Watch |
BigTen+ |
| Live Stats |
Live Stats |
| Game Notes |
Chicago State Game 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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