Hawaii women’s basketball: Full 2019-20 schedule revealed

Most of the Hawaii women’s basketball schedule was teased last week, but the full reveal came Thursday afternoon.

UH opens it up at home — the second straight year it has done so after going on the road every year under Laura Beeman — on Sept. 5 against San Diego State.

Highlights include home dates against North Carolina State and Texas in the Rainbow Wahine Showdown (Nov. 29-Dec.1) and a road trip to play Oregon State and Washington (Dec. 6 and 8).

There are also separate road trips to face Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine in November, and Idaho in a stand-alone before Christmas.

UPDATE: Beeman messaged Hawaii Warrior World, “We always schedule to prepare our team for conference and postseason play. This schedule is no different. Our returning players’ experience is going to be important and our youngsters are going to be battle tested very quickly.”

UH, which rallied down the stretch to earn the No. 2 seed in last year’s Big West tournament, and was a few minutes away from upsetting top seed UC Davis, opens Big West play at Cal State Northridge on Jan. 9.

It ends Big West play at home against Cal Poly on March 7 before the Big West tournament begins in Southern California the following week.

A couple of notable updates from what was shown previously:

>> An exhibition against Hawaii Pacific on Oct. 29 was added
>> The game against Hawaii Hilo on Oct. 19 was changed to a closed scrimmage
>> A home date against North Texas on Nov. 29 was revealed
>> Hope International, an NAIA school that UH has practiced at to prepare for Big West tournaments, arrives for a game Dec. 15
>> A game against Penn State of the Big Ten on Dec. 31 was corrected to Penn of the Ivy League
>> Note that many games this year, especially in nonconference play, have earlier start times because of doubleheaders

The full 2019-20 schedule:

RECORD: 16-14 overall, 9-7 Big West