Cougars Wrap Up 2022-23 Season Today vs. Hartford
The Chicago State's women's basketball team will wrap up the 2022-23 season against the University of Hartford today at 1 p.m. at the Jones Convocation Center. This will be the fourth meeting between the two teams with Chicago State earning victories in the first three games (76-59 and 57-49) at the end of January in West Hartford and 79-60 yesterday at the JCC in the first of back-to-back games.
Chicago State and Hartford are the only two Division I programs playing an independent schedule this year. CSU left the Western Athletic Conference following the 2021-22 season while Hartford began a transition to Division III during the 2021-22 school year, and left the America East Conference in July 2022. Hartford will join the D-III Commonwealth Coast Conference in July 2023.
The Hawks enter the weekend with a 2-23 record and have won two of their last four games.
After starting the season with 19 consecutive losses, the Cougars have won five of their last eight games and achieved their best win total in a season since 2011-12 when that year's squad won six games.
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.
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