2019-20 Women’s Basketball Season Preview

ROSTER | SCHEDULE | CCC PRESEASON POLL

BEVERLY, Mass. – The Endicott women's basketball team opens up its 2019-20 season on Wednesday, November 13 at home against Bridgewater State at 5:30 PM. Here's a preview of the upcoming season.

FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Senior guard Emily Pratt (Gardner, Mass.) enters this season ranked No. 12 all-time in scoring with 1,038 points. Based on her three-year scoring average of 346 points, Pratt has a chance to break into the top-5 by year's end.
• The Gulls will play three regionally ranked teams from last season on their 2019-20 schedule including Bowdoin (No. 1, 11/16, home), Babson (No. 7, 12/31, away), and MIT (No. 9, 1/4, away). In addition to that, Bowdoin enters this season ranked No. 5 overall on the D3hoops.com Top-25 Preseason Poll.
• Endicott has punched its ticket to the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Tournament for 17 straight seasons headed into its 2019-20 campaign.
• This year's roster features eight freshmen, four sophomores, two juniors, and three seniors whose majors include accounting, athletic training, biology & biotechnology, business management, educational studies, engineering, entrepreneurship, exercise science, liberal arts, marketing, nursing, photography, and sport management. Among that group, Pratt, seniors Kaleigh Putnam (Wallingford, Conn.) and Mikaela Rogers (Haverhill, Mass.), and junior Shannon Gilbert (Easton, Conn.) return as Endicott's top-four leading scorers from last year. Pratt averaged 17.7 points per game (PPG), while Putnam (11.9 PPG), Rogers (10.4 PPG), and Gilbert (5.6 PPG) followed in respective order.
• Brittany Hutchinson, the all-time winningest coach in program history, returns for her ninth season at the helm of the program. Hutchinson currently has 134 wins entering 2019-20 and has guided Endicott to the CCC Championship game twice during her time at The Nest.

HIGHLIGHTED HOME GAMES (not previously mentioned)

• UNE (12/4, CCC opener)
• Western New England (12/7)
• Gordon (1/9)
• Salem State (1/30)
• Curry (2/22, Senior Day!)

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