National powers to test women’s team

Home game against UConn is among schedule highlights.

The University of Texas women’s basketball team’s nonconference schedule for the 2017-18 season will include perennial national powerhouses Connecticut, Tennessee and Florida State.

The Longhorn’s nonconference opponents finished 185-106 (.636) this season, and three of UT’s nonconference foes are ranked among the nation’s top teams, according to ESPN.com’s “Way-TooEarly Preseason Top 25.”

In addition to the announced opponents, the Longhorns will participate in the South Point Shootout on Nov. 24-25 in Las Vegas, with matchups to be determined. Texas will play two games in that event.

Home-schedule highlights include a game against UConn, a Final Four team this season before being upset by Mississippi State. The Huskies will play at the Erwin Center on Jan. 15.

Also coming to Austin will be Florida State on Dec. 17. The Seminoles were a regional finalist this season.

The Longhorns begin the season with an exhibition game on Nov. 5 against Oklahoma City University, which won this year’s NAIA Division I national championship. The Stars were 34-2 overall and 17-0 in the Sooner Athletic Conference.

Other home games include: Stetson (Nov. 12), McNeese State (Nov. 15), UT-San Antonio (Nov. 17), Louisiana Tech (Nov. 30) and Northwestern State (Dec. 13).

Along with trips to Tennessee (Dec. 10) and the South Point Shootout, the Longhorns will travel to Georgia on Dec. 3.

Rowing: Texas earned three top-10 seeds, including a pair of top-five seeds for the upcoming NCAA Championships May 26-28 on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.

Texas was given the No. 3 seed in the I Eights, No. 5 seed in the II Eights and the No. 9 seed in the Fours.

Texas, along with Central Florida, Gonzaga, Jacksonville, Massachusetts, Navy, Northeastern, Ohio State, Princeton, Virginia and Washington, was an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Championships.

At-large bids went to Brown, California, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Notre Dame, Stanford, Syracuse, Washington State, Wisconsin and Yale.

STAFF AND GETTY IMAGES FILE PHOTOS Coach Karen Aston’s Longhorns will face Geno Auriemma’s UConn team Jan. 15 at the Erwin Center. The Huskies were upset by Mississippi State in the Final Four last season.