| GAME 1: Old Dominion (0-0, 0-0 C-USA) vs. Norfolk State (1-1, 0-0 MEAC) | |
| Date | Friday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. |
| Location | Ted Constant Center -- Norfolk, Va. |
| Tickets | YNotTix.com |
| Game Notes | Old Dominion | Norfolk State | C-USA | MEAC |
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NORFOLK, Va. -- The Old Dominion women's basketball team opens the 2016-17 season on Friday with a home matchup against Norfolk State at 7 p.m. at the Ted Constant Center.
The game will be streamed live on CUSA.tv and can also be heard live on ESPN Radio 94.1. Both the live stream and radio broadcast will feature Doug Ripley (play-by-play) and Susan Montgomery (color).
Old Dominion (0-0, 0-0 C-USA) returns all but one player from a season ago, including all five starters. Conference USA's leading scorer last season Jennie Simms returns, along with fellow co-captain Destinee Young who nearly averaged a double-double last season with 9.9 points and 8.4 rebounds.
Overall, head coach Karen Barefoot, in her sixth season with the Lady Monarchs, returns the top 10 scorers from a season ago, while also welcoming back forward Odegua Oigbokie who missed all of 2015-16 with an injury.
Norfolk State (1-1, 0-0 MEAC) is coming off of a 99-59 home victory over Saint Augustine's on Tuesday, after opening the season with a 64-56 loss at UNC Wilmington. Four Spartans are averaging double figures through two games, led by senior guard Jordan Strode with a 13.5 points per game average.
OLD DOMINION NOTES
- Karen Barefoot is 3-2 all-time in season openers at ODU
- ODU ended last season with a run to the C-USA Championship game, winning five of its last six games
- Jennie Simms is the seventh-leading returning scorer in the country (21.4ppg last season)
- ODU returns its top 10 leading scorers from last season
- Karen Barefoot is four wins shy of 300 for her career
- ODU opens the season with three games in five days
- ODU defeated Davis & Elkins, 82-65, in its lone exhibition of the preseason
- Jennie Simms and Destinee Young are the 2016-17 team captains
- ODU hosts William & Mary on Sunday at 2 p.m. at The Ted
NORFOLK STATE NOTES
- Head coach Larry Vickers is in his first season as head coach with the Spartans
- Vickers served as the interim coach for 11 games at the end of last season
- Four Spartans are averaging double figures in scoring
- NSU held Saint Augustine's to 29.7 percent shooting in Tuesday's 99-59 win
- The Spartans outscored UNCW, 29-28, in the second half of the 64-56 loss in the season opener
- T. Moses (14.0), J. Strode (13.5), K. Roberts (10.5), K. Phillips (10.0) all average double figures
- NSU went 3-21 a season ago, but return nine letterwinners and three starters
SERIES HISTORY
- Old Dominion leads the all-time series, 20-3
- ODU defeated the Spartans, 97-54, in the last meeting in 2008
- ODU has won 11 straight matchups against NSU
- Norfolk State last defeated Old Dominion in 1976