CONWAY – The Coastal Carolina women’s basketball team announced its 2018-19 schedule on Wednesday. This season features a lineup of 29 regular season games, including 15 home games to be played at the HTC Center. The Chanticleers will also be hosting a Thanksgiving tournament this season featuring Memphis, Mercer and Bowling Green.

Coastal opens the season on Nov. 6 hosting Western Carolina for a 5 p.m. game at the HTC Center. The Chants then have a full week off, but remain at home to play South Carolina State at 6 p.m. on Nov. 13.

Coastal plays its first road game on Nov. 18 when it makes a cross-country trip to UC Riverside.

The Chants’ Thanksgiving tournament will take place Nov. 23 and 25, with a pair of games played each day.Coastal opens the event against Bowling Green at 2 p.m. on Friday, followed by a 4 p.m. game between Memphis and Mercer. Sunday’s slate will see Bowling Green and Mercer square off at noon before Coastal and Memphis close the weekend with a 2 p.m. start.

After a quick trip to North Carolina Central on Dec. 1, Coastal returns to the HTC Center to host Meredith College (Dec. 5) and North Carolina Wesleyan (Dec. 8).

Coastal will once again take part in the Philanthropist.com Carolinas Challenge at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, which has been expanded for 2018 to include more schools and more games played. Instead of the traditional one game, Coastal will play a pair of games against Auburn (Dec. 18) and Rice (Dec. 20).

Following the Christmas break, Coastal closes its non-conference schedule at UNC Greensboro on Dec. 29.

The Chanticleers begin their Sun Belt Conference schedule at home when the calendar flips to the new year, welcoming Troy (Jan. 3) and South Alabama (Jan. 5) to the HTC Center. Coastal plays a total of nine home conference games this season, as Little Rock (Jan. 24), Arkansas State (Jan. 26), UTA (Feb. 7), Texas State (Feb. 9), Appalachian State (Feb. 16), Louisiana (Feb. 28) and ULM (March 2) also make the trip to Conway.

The Sun Belt is once again following a Thursday/Saturday game schedule this season. All Thursday home games are scheduled to start at 6 p.m., and all Saturday home games will begin at 2 p.m.

Coastal finishes its regular season on the road at South Alabama (March 7) and Troy (March 9).

The 2019 Sun Belt Women’s Basketball Championship will run from March 11-16, and include a different format from past seasons. The tournament will include only the top 10 teams in the conference, and will begin with a first round of games played between the 7-10 seeds at campus sites with the higher seeds hosting. The two winners advance to New Orleans, where the final eight teams will once again play at Lakefront Arena. Under the new format, the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds receive byes to the semifinal, while the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds receive byes to the quarterfinals.

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