ROLLA, Mo. – A challenging schedule awaits Missouri S&T's women's basketball team for the 2022-23 season, as the Miners will take on four teams that played in last year's NCAA Division II Tournament as part of their 28-game slate this winter.

S&T, who finished 11-16 a year ago as it recorded its highest win total since the 2012-13 campaign, will play a pair of NCAA Division I teams in exhibition contests before beginning its season at the Midwest Region Crossover Challenge at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside on Nov. 11. 

The Miners will face Missouri State, who reached the second round of last year's NCAA Division I Tournament, in the first exhibition game on Wednesday, Nov. 2 before taking on Southern Illinois Edwardsville in the second on Sunday, Nov. 6.

S&T will open its season on Nov. 11 against Wisconsin-Parkside in the first of two games in Kenosha, Wis.; the other will take place the following day against Walsh, who lost in the NCAA Midwest Regional championship game to Grand Valley State last March.

The Miners' home opener will follow on Tuesday, Nov. 15 against Baptist Bible before S&T heads on the road for six consecutive games, three against teams from the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association and the other three to open the Great Lakes Valley Conference slate.

That stretch begins with a trip to the Central Oklahoma Classic to face UCO and Newman, then S&T faces MIAA regular season co-champion and NCAA Tournament participant Missouri Southern in Joplin on Nov. 23.  The Miners will begin their conference schedule on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (Nov. 26) with a game at Southwest Baptist before taking on GLVC champion and Midwest Regional semifinalist Drury in Springfield two days later.

The sixth game in that run is against the fourth NCAA Tournament team from last season, Missouri-St. Louis, whom the Miners will face on the UMSL campus on Dec. 3.

Missouri S&T's first GLVC home game takes place a week after that on Dec. 10 against Illinois Springfield to begin S&T's longest homestand of the season – five games – that includes an Education Day game on Monday, Dec. 19 where the elementary schools in the area are invited to attend.  The Miners will face Missouri Baptist in that Monday morning game and close the non-conference season after the NCAA's mandated break with a game against Principia on Dec. 30.

The Miners' final 16 regular season games will be within the Great Lakes Valley Conference prior to the GLVC Tournament that gets underway on March 2.  S&T has nine conference games at home after the start of the new calendar year, facing Maryville (Jan. 5), McKendree (Jan. 7), Truman State (Jan. 19), William Jewell (Jan. 28), Drury (Feb. 2), Southwest Baptist (Feb. 4), UMSL (Feb. 9), Lewis (Feb. 23) and Indianapolis (Feb. 25).