The University of Maine women’s basketball team will play five teams that won at least 24 games as part of its 13-game non-conference schedule that was released this week.

All five played in postseason tournaments with three earning NCAA Tournament berths.

North Carolina State finished at 28-7 and reached the third round of the NCAA Tournament last season, where it lost to Louisiana State University 80-73. NC State has a 23-game home winning streak and has won all six previous games against UMaine.

A pair of Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference schools from Connecticut, Fairfield and Quinnipiac, each finished at 28-5. MAAC Tournament champ Fairfield lost to Kansas State 85-41 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and MAAC tourney runnerup Quinnipiac lost to Seton Hall 57-40 in the fir

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