If all goes well between now and Saturday, UConn women’s basketball will finally play its first game on the season on Saturday, Dec. 12 against UMass Lowell. For the Huskies, it’s taken a long time to reach this point. The team returned to campus in late July and have been practicing in some capacity ever since.
Then in September, the NCAA pushed the start date of the college basketball season back to Nov. 25, a move that was long expected. Later, it also canceled all exhibition games. UConn was initially scheduled to begin the year on Nov.