SALEM, Ore. – Now entering her second full season as head coach of the Corban University Women's Basketball program, Kylie Frizell has announced an exciting 2025-26 season schedule for the Navy and Gold that will feature 14 home matchups for Warrior Nation to attend on Tim Hills Court, including a home non-conference tournament for the second-straight year and plenty of local road contests against both NCAA and Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) programs scattered up and down the Pacific Northwest.
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"I'm really excited for our non-conference schedule as we open up with the Hampton Inn Classic on our home court against NAIA teams from out of conference," Coach Frizell explained. "We also have some great local teams on the schedule like WOU, Linfield, and GFU. These teams will really help prep us for what we believe will be a competitive conference season for this program!"
Corban women's basketball fans will have four-straight opportunities to see the Warriors play within the confines of the C.E. Jeffers Sports Center to kickstart the 2025-26 regular season, beginning with a friendly scrimmage with Linn-Benton Community College on Saturday, October 25th at 2pm.
On Halloweekend, the Navy and Gold will host the 2025 Hampton Inn Classic, presented by Hampton Inn & Suites on Tim Hills Court with three NAIA programs traveling to the Willamette Valley in what will feature four head-to-head clashes between CCC and Great Southwest Athletic Conference (GSAC) programs. First, the Warriors will host Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in their first counting contest of the season on the evening of October 31st, while Eastern Oregon University will serve as the secondary CCC squad and battle Arizona Christian University later that night. The following afternoon, the CCC and GSAC programs will flip opponents to close out the non-conference tourney, where Corban and ACU will meet at 3pm while the EOU/ERAU contest is scheduled for directly after at 5pm.
The final Warrior home contest for nearly a month will take place at 7:30pm on Thursday, November 6th, as Corban hosts yet another GSAC program in Hope International University who will be making the journey north from Fullerton, California. The very next night, Coach Frizell and the Warriors will make the short trip down the I-5 interstate to play in an exhibition matchup with NCAA DI Oregon State University, with tipoff time still to be determined.
The last two weeks of November are made up of purely road trips for both squads, with the Navy and Gold making stops at three NCAA DIII schools and a single DII university. George Fox University and Western Oregon University will host Corban back-to-back on November 13th and 15th, while Pacific Lutheran University hosts a November 21st Friday night matchup and Lewis & Clark College represents the penultimate non-conference matchup on Tuesday, November 25th in Portland.
CCC action begins with a pair of midweek contests for Corban women's basketball this school year, as they'll split home and away duties when they host I-5 rival Bushnell University on Tuesday, December 2nd before traveling to PDX once again to meet with Warner Pacific University two days later on Thursday. With a brief break in conference action the following weekend for finals around the PNW, the Warriors will host NCAA DIII Linfield University on Saturday, December 13th to close out the non-conference portion of their schedule.
Road CCC contests at Southern Oregon University and Oregon Tech are how the Warriors will wrap up the 2025 calendar year the weekend before Christmas, taking a much deserved two-week break before conference action gears back up on January 2nd when Corban women's basketball hosts the first of four-straight home games to start the 2026 new year. They will welcome Northwest University, The Evergreen State College, Walla Walla University, and Lewis-Clark State College on the Fridays and Saturdays leading up to three-straight road games at The College of Idaho, Eastern Oregon, and Bushnell before they return to their home court to close out the month of January's home schedule against Warner Pac.
The back half of the conference slate features a two-week homestand nestled between two northern road trips to western Washington and eastern Washington/western Idaho, beginning on January 30th and 31st when they travel to Olympia (Evergreen) and Kirkland (Northwest). From February 6th to 14th, a grueling four-game homestand against some of the best women's basketball squads in the CCC takes place, with the Lady Owls, Raiders, Yotes, and Mounties all making appearances on Tim Hills Court. The last weekend of the regular season will see Corban travel to LC State and Walla Walla for 5pm and 7pm tipoffs on February 20th and 21st, respectively.
The top eight teams at the end of the regular season will earn a spot in the CCC Tournament, which for the first time in conference history, will all take place in one central location. The tourney will begin on February 27th with the quarterfinal stage at the home gym of the regular season champions and conclude on March 2nd with the championship matchup. The winner of the conference tourney will earn an automatic berth to the NAIA National Tournament unless the winner of the tournament is also the regular season champions. In the event of a repeat champion, the tournament runner-up will receive the second automatic qualifier.
Should the Warriors qualify for the NAIA National Tournament this upcoming season, they'll begin with the NAIA Opening Round at selected campus sites on March 13th and 14th. The NAIA National Championships will take place in Sioux City, Iowa over the course of March 19th to 24th, with a national champion being crowned at the conclusion of the annual Red Banner event.
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