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 Jessica Jackson and Heather Swayne prepare for their interview with Tennessee Head Coach Pat Summitt. |
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Nov. 7, 2008
CULLOWHEE, N.C. - Western Carolina women's basketball will host Brevard College in its lone exhibition game at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Ramsey Center.
The Lady Catamounts will debut a squad that boasts seven returning players, three starters and five newcomers - four of them freshmen. The club is coming off a 2007-08 season which saw Western Carolina reel off a school record 25 wins and knock off its first ranked opponent defeating then ranked No. 21/22 Louisville.
The match-up with Brevard will springboard Western Carolina's season as the club opens up the 2008-09 slate with a preseason WNIT match up at North Carolina November 14 at 7 p.m. The Tarheels are ranked No. 4 in the ESPN/USA Today poll and fifth in the AP poll. The match-up with North Carolina is the first of two known opponents Western Carolina will face that is ranked in the top 10.
The Lady Catamounts will travel to Knoxville to take on Tennessee November 25. The Lady Vols are preseason ranked sixth the ESPN/USA Today poll and seventh in the AP. Sandwiched in between the contests with North Carolina and Tennessee is two additional games within the bracket of the preseason WNIT.
No matter the outcome with the Tarheels on Nov. 14, Western Carolina is guaranteed two more games in the tournament.
NOTE: Saturday at 8.a.m. Power 90 dot five will host the Western Carolina Student-Athlete Roundtable exclusive interview with Tennessee Lady Vol Head Coach Pat Summitt. Lady Catamount basketball players Heather Swayne and Jessica Jackson interviewed the legendary coach for their weekly program and talked about Summitt's 2008-09 squad and how Western Carolina will be facing Tennessee in Knoxville this season. Link to article on Swayne and Jackson in Asheville Citizen Times.
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