The Jacey Brooks era will open on Nov. 3 when the NIU women’s basketball team heads to Southern Mississippi.

The new coach’s first game was announced on Friday as the university released the nonconference schedules for both the men’s and women’s programs. The schedule for the teams’ final year in the Mid-American Conference was released earlier this year.

Brooks was named coach of the program in April , shortly after helping Buffalo reach the title game of the WNIT as an assistant coach.

Her first home game will be against future Horizon League foe Milwaukee on Nov. 7. The schedule features one major conference team with a Dec. 7 trip to Iowa State.

They’ll only play two nonconference games at home after Milwaukee. They host Western Illinois on Nov. 11 and Chicago State on Nov. 24

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