WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - With a revamped roster that includes nine freshmen, the Lycoming College women's basketball team will head to Penn State Hazleton to open the 2016-17 season at Caccese Gymnasium on Thursday, Nov. 17.

The Warriors (0-0 overall) will head onto the court with a youthful backcourt after the graduation of two senior starters from the 2015-16 team that went 14-12 and reached the MAC Commonwealth Tournament for the third time in four years.

The Nittany Lions (4-0 overall) have gotten out to a hot start in 2016-17, posting wins over Luzerne County C.C., SUNY Delhi, Davis and Cairn. The team posted a 64-40 win over Cairn, with three players notching double-doubles, on Tuesday, Nov. 15.

Warrior Notes
• The Warriors are 11-12 in season openers in head coach Chris Ditzler's first 23 years as head coach.

• Ditzler's next win is the 275th in her career. Only Budd Whitehill (373, wrestling), Roger Crebs (366, wrestling) and Dutch Burch (318, men's basketball) have won more in a single sport at Lycoming.

• The Warriors return 65.6 percent of its scoring from 2015-16.

• Junior Shelby Mueller needs three blocks to tie Amy Bauman's 12th-best mark in school history of 44.

• Junior Haley Sipple needs four more points to reach 250 in her career.

• The Warriors' nine freshmen is the largest rookie group for the program since 2006-07, when the team had 11 freshmen.

• The Warriors' string of three straight winning seasons is the program's longest since a five-year run from 1993-98.