Big South Announces 2023-24 Women's Basketball Conference Schedule
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) – The Big South Conference unveiled its 2023-24 women’s basketball composite league schedule Wednesday afternoon. The 72-game slate begins on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024 and is a 16-game, double round-robin schedule to determine the 2023-24 regular-season champion.
The slate features two games a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and concludes Saturday, March 2. Teams have two open dates during the conference season -- one Wednesday and one Saturday, with the byes scheduled during each half of the season (Jan. 3-31, Feb. 3-March 2). All schools will play each other during the opening month of the campaign, with the second game of the season series scheduled at least two weeks apart.
Longwood will host its first Big South game of the year in the new Joan Perry Brock Center on Jan. 3 against Winthrop. Also opening the conference season at home on Jan. 3 will be Presbyterian (vs. Charleston Southern), High Point (vs. Radford), and USC Upstate (vs. UNC Asheville). Gardner-Webb and High Point will start and end conference play at home, while Radford and Winthrop will begin and finish league action with road games.
Schedule highlights include defending Big South champion Gardner-Webb (and new head coach
Scott Merritt) opening its league season Saturday, Jan. 6 at home against High Point in a rematch of last year’s title contest. In addition, Charleston Southern and Presbyterian will open and close the season against each other: Jan. 3 in Clinton, S.C., and March 2 in the Buc Dome.
The season culminates with the 2024 Hercules Tires Big South Women’s Basketball Championship, which be held at the Qubein Center on the campus of High Point University in High Point, N.C., from March 6-10. The first round will be Wednesday, March 6, followed by four quarterfinal contests on Thursday, March 7. The semifinals are scheduled for Saturday, March 9, with the Championship game on Sunday, March 10.
The 2023-24 Big South Women’s Basketball Conference schedule and team-by-team listings are
available here in .pdf format. Confirmed game times and television coverage will be available at a later date.