LOWELL, Mass. – UMass Lowell Males’s Basketball Head Coach Pat Duquette unveiled his squad’s full, 30-game slate for the 2022-23 season on Tuesday. The River Hawks open the brand new marketing campaign at house on Monday, November 7 in opposition to Fisher earlier than kicking off a multi-team occasion at Columbia on Thursday, Nov. 10.
“We’re excited to get began once more and are trying ahead to a difficult non-conference schedule to get us prepared for America East play,” mentioned Duquette, who’s coming into his 10th yr on the helm of this system. “The league is nearly as good because it’s ever been, however we really feel like we now have a extremely deep and gifted crew that may contend for a championship.”
After compiling this system’s finest profitable share on the Division I degree final season (.484), the River Hawks will play one other aggressive slate in 2022-23, eyeing a deep run within the America East Playoffs.
The squad will play two different video games in addition to the Columbia matchup as a part of the November MTE, starting with a visit to Massive Ten foe Rutgers on Nov. 12, and adopted by a go to from Sacred Coronary heart on Nov. 16. Along with SHU, the River Hawks wrap up the month of November trekking to Brown (Nov. 23) and internet hosting two extra Northeast Convention opponents, Stonehill (Nov. 27) and Merrimack (Nov. 30).
UMass Lowell opens December with a three-game highway swing, it is longest of the season. That stretch concludes in Amherst for the annual Kennedy Cup Problem recreation in opposition to Massachusetts on Dec. 8. Regardless of being a road-heavy month, which additionally features a cease at Rhode Island (Dec. 13), the crew will welcome Boston College to Lowell simply earlier than the vacation break on Dec. 21.
Though some league opponents have modified, the America East schedule will stay as a home-and-home format in 2022-23. The River Hawks head to NJIT for a New 12 months’s Eve rendezvous and convention opener. The crew then squares off in opposition to Maine at house on January 5 in its America East house opener.
Additionally within the month of January, UMass Lowell hosts reigning league champion Vermont (Jan. 11) and the No. 2 seed from a season in the past, UMBC (Jan. 19), in addition to America East newcomer Bryant (Jan. 22).
The River Hawks’ last set of back-to-back house video games for the season comes in opposition to UAlbany and NJIT on February 1 and 4, respectively. The River Hawks will wrap up the common season in opposition to New Hampshire on Feb. 25.
The highest eight groups within the standings will qualify for the 2022-23 America East Playoffs, that are set to start with the quarterfinal spherical on Saturday, March 4. The semifinals will observe on Tuesday, March 7 to find out the championship matchup on Saturday, March 11. All rounds might be performed on the increased seed.
The 2022-23 schedule is topic to alter. Tsongas Middle video games might be introduced at a later date. Updates may be discovered at www.goriverhawks.com.
