Preview: CSU Women's Basketball vs. Saint Xavier, Sunday, Feb. 5 at 1 p.m.

Cougars WBB Seek Third Consecutive Victory
The Chicago State's women's basketball team returns to the court a week after playing their last game to host Saint Xavier on Sunday, February 5 at 1 p.m. at the JCC. Chicago State athletics will observe Breast Cancer Awareness during the game. St. Xavier, a member of the CCAC, enters the week 18-6 overall and 14-3 in conference play. This will be the fifth meeting between the two schools with the Cougars holding a 4-0 advantage in the series.

The Cougars are enjoying their first two game win streak since 2015-16 and, with a win Sunday, it would be the Cougars first three-game win streak since 2010-11 when CSU went 24-10 and 11-1 in the Great West Conference

Last Time Out
The Cougars played a pair of games at Hartford January 28 and 29 and picked a pair of victories, winning 76-59 and 57-49. In the first game, freshman Josie Hill recorded a double-double as she posted up 17 points along with 10 rebounds, while Janiah Newell also put up 17 points, and Tae'Lor Willard added 10. In the second game, the Hawks led throughout and took a 10 point lead into the locker room at halftime and led by nine in the late stages of the third quarter before the Janiah Newell staged a 7-2 run for CSU in the final minute to cut the lead to four. Ana Haklicka hit a three to open the scoring in the fourth to pull within one and Newell converted a pair of free throws and CSU took the lead and never trailed again en route to the eight-point win. Newell led all scorers with 22 points and Taylor Norris was the only other player in double figures with 10. 

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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About Chicago State Athletics
Chicago State University Athletics is composed 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. 

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