Women's basketball season preview
11/4/2022
2022-23 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SEASON PREVIEW
The Brown Bears season tips off on Monday night at the Pizzitola Sports Center with a matchup against Fairfield. Brown will then hit the road for two games to finish up its first week of the season.
The Bears will play a 27-game slate that features 14 Ivy League contests and 13 non-conference games. Fans will have 14 chances to see the Bears inside the Pizzitola Sports Center.
Brown will look to build in the third season under Monique LeBlanc, Elizabeth F. Turner ’98 Coaching Chair for Women’s Basketball. The Bears earned six wins under LeBlanc last season in her second full season of play after the 2020-21 season was cancelled.
The Bears will begin their season against Fairfield before making their first road trip of the year at Duquesne (Nov. 11) and Wagner (Nov. 13).
Brown’s remaining non-conference home games will be against Sacred Heart (Nov. 16), Monmouth (Nov. 25), Holy Cross (Nov. 30), Hartford (Dec. 3), Mitchell (Dec. 10) and Bryant (Dec. 21).
The Bears will be on the road for games at UMass Lowell (Nov. 19), Central Connecticut State (Nov. 28), Providence (Dec. 7) and Florida Gulf Coast (Dec. 28).
Ivy League play begins on the road for the Bears with four games away from the Pizzitola Sports Center. Brown starts the new year at Penn on Jan 2, before traveling to Harvard on Jan. 6 and Dartmouth on Jan. 7. The road swing ends with a game at Princeton on Jan. 14.
The first Ivy League home game for Brown will be against Yale on Jan. 16. The Bears will then play six out of seven games on its home court from Jan. 28 to Feb. 25. Brown will welcome Cornell (Jan. 28), Dartmouth (Feb. 3) and Harvard (Feb. 4), followed by a three-game homestand with Princeton (Feb. 17), Penn (Feb. 18) and Columbia (Feb. 25).
The Bears other road league games are against Columbia (Jan. 21), Cornell (Feb. 11) and Yale (March 4).
Brown returns its top-six scorers from a season ago, led by Isabella Mauricio, who finished last season with 14.4 points per game. Last season, Mauricio set a Brown freshman record with 70 made threes, which is also third all-time in program history.
Junior Kyla Jones is back after averaging 12.9 points per game and a team-high 65 steals. Jones’ 2.7 steals per game was tops in the Ivy League and 19th in the NCAA.
Brown’s roster will feature eight newcomers from across the country. Alyssa Moreland (Beverly, Mass.), Mackenzie Leahy (West Dundee, Ill.) Ada Anamekwe (Parker, Texas), Page Greenburg (Washington, D.C.) Grace Arnolie (Vienna, Va.) Elizabeth Nelson (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and sisters Mady and Lexy Calhoun (Barrington, R.I.).
The eight members of the Class of 2026 will join a roster that lost just four players from last season.
