Preview: CSU Women's Basketball at Cleveland State, Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 1 p.m.

Cougars Set For Final Road Game of the Year
The Chicago State's women's basketball team will play their last road game of the season at Cleveland State on Tuesday, February 7 at 1 p.m. at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland. The Cougars won their last two road games, both at Hartford, and have won three games in a row overall for the first time since 2010-11 when CSU went 24-10 and 11-1 in the Great West Conference. Cleveland State enters the game with a 21-3 record and have won four straight including the last two at home where they are 11-1 this season.

Last Time Out
The Chicago State women's basketball team hosted the Saint Xavier Cougars and rode a strong first-quarter run to a seven-point victory, earning a 70-63 win. Josie Hill led Chicago State with 15 points while Janiah Newell and Jacia Cunningham each added 13.

The win was the Cougars third consecutive victory and second in the last three games at home. After starting the season with 19 consecutive losses, CSU has won four of their last six games and with one win in any of their final three games, the Cougars would have their best win total in a season since 2011-12 when that year's squad won six games.

Saint Xaiver led 11-10 with 5:47 remaining in the first quarter but failed to score the rest of the way and Chicago State took advantage with an 11-0 run and led 21-11 after one period of play. CSU increased that lead to 19 during the second quarter and led by as many as 25 in the third before Saint Xavier outscored CSU 23-12 in the final stanza pulling to within six, 65-59, with 3:09 left to play.

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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