BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Lehigh males’s basketball group formally started preparations for the 2022-23 season final week, and on Monday the Mountain Hawks unveiled their schedule for the upcoming marketing campaign. The Mountain Hawks will play three energy convention opponents, together with two NCAA event groups from a season in the past, and can play 14 video games at house.
The Mountain Hawks will likely be examined proper from the beginning with back-to-back season-opening video games towards groups from the Atlantic Coast Convention. Lehigh will open the 2022-23 season at Syracuse on Monday, Nov. 7. The Mountain Hawks opened the 2015-16 marketing campaign on the JMA Wi-fi Dome. Final 12 months’s scheduled assembly between the groups was in the end canceled resulting from COVID-19 protocols inside the Orange program. On Nov. 10, Lehigh will journey to Blacksburg, Va., to face defending ACC Event champion Virginia Tech. The Mountain Hawks and Hokies have met simply as soon as earlier than, within the 2019-20 season.
Lehigh will open its house schedule towards Misericordia on Sunday, Nov. 13 and can then welcome Marist to Stabler Enviornment on Wednesday, Nov. 16.
Following a go to to Saint Francis (Pa.) on Nov. 21, Lehigh will likely be again in Stabler on Sunday, Nov. 27 to shut out Thanksgiving Weekend towards Monmouth.
Lehigh will journey to Maryland Jap Shore on Nov. 30 earlier than welcoming the Retrievers of UMBC to Stabler Enviornment on Saturday, Dec. 3 within the Mountain Hawks’ ultimate recreation earlier than the ultimate examination break.
Popping out of the examination break, Lehigh will journey to Madison, Wis., for its first-ever assembly with the Wisconsin Badgers on Thursday, Dec. 15. Wisconsin reached the spherical of 32 eventually 12 months’s NCAA Event after defeating Colgate within the first spherical. Lehigh will host St. Elizabeth College on Saturday, Dec. 17 earlier than closing out the non-league slate at Cornell on Dec. 20.
Lehigh will play three of its first 4 Patriot League video games on the highway, starting with a Dec. 30 go to to Military West Level. The lone house recreation throughout that span is a go to from two-time defending league champion Colgate on Jan. 2. The return recreation towards the Raiders will likely be Feb. 8 in Hamilton, N.Y.
The Rivalry, introduced by Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute, returns to Stabler Enviornment Jan. 21 as Lehigh hosts Lafayette, with the return recreation set for Feb. 4 in Easton.
Different Patriot League house dates for the Mountain Hawks embody visits from Holy Cross (Jan. 11), American (Jan. 14), Boston College (Jan. 29), Military West Level (Feb. 1), Loyola (Feb. 11), Navy (Feb. 15) and Bucknell (Feb. 22).
The common season concludes with a go to to Boston College Feb. 25. The Patriot League Event begins with the primary spherical Feb. 28 and concludes with the championship recreation on Mar. 8.
The Mountain Hawks return 13 gamers from final 12 months’s group that went 10-8 in league play and reached the Patriot League Event semifinals. Senior Evan Taylor was a 3rd group All-Patriot League honoree, whereas sophomores Keith Higgins Jr. and Tyler Whitney-Sidney had been named to the All-Rookie Staff.
Ticket info for the 2022-23 Lehigh girls’s basketball season will likely be introduced within the coming days. Whereas all house video games will likely be streamed dwell on ESPN+ (subscription required), tv and radio info will likely be introduced at a later date.
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