NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk State women’s basketball coach Debra Clark announced the Spartans’ 2014-15 schedule on Monday. The 27-game regular-season slate includes two holiday tournaments and 11 home games.

For the second consecutive year, the Spartans open the season with a non-traditional home doubleheader with the NSU men’s team. The women host Morehead State at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14, prior to the men’s team facing Pfeiffer at 8 p.m. Following the season-opener, NSU heads to the western part of the state for matchups at Virginia Tech (Nov. 18) and Radford (Nov. 20) before returning home onSunday, Nov. 23 to face Hofstra.

The following week, the Spartans play in the first of their two in-season tournaments, a Thanksgiving tournament at Tennessee State University in Nashville. NSU faces tourney host TSU on Nov. 29 and Nicholls State on Nov. 30.

The December portion of the schedule begins with the MEAC opener against Morgan State on Dec. 6 at Echols Hall. The rest of the month’s slate includes a home contest with Marshall on Dec. 16, a road game at East Carolina on Dec. 20, and the Seawolves Holiday Classic at Stony Brook University on Dec. 28-29. NSU meets Holy Cross and Stony Brook in the two-day affair in New York.

The 2015 calendar year begins with a road contest at South Carolina-Upstate on Jan. 3, the Spartans’ final non-conference game of the season. The last 15 games of the season are MEAC contests, starting with a home meeting with Coppin State on Jan. 5. The Spartans have home matchups with North Carolina Central, North Carolina A&T, Hampton, Howard, UMES and Delaware State. The Spartans have road MEAC tilts on the road at Florida A&M, Bethune-Cookman, South Carolina State, Savannah State, Morgan State, Coppin State, Howard and Hampton. Four of NSU’s final five regular-season games are on the road.

For the third straight year, the MEAC Tournament will be played at the Norfolk Scope Arena. This year’s tournament runs March 9-14.

“We’re very pleased to be opening the 2014-15 season at home,” Clark said. “Our non-conference schedule is very competitive. We feel playing this non-conference schedule with so many young players will prepare us to contend with the teams we’ll face in the MEAC during conference play.”

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