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St. LOUIS -- The Missouri Valley Conference has finalized its 2016-17 women's basketball schedule, the league office announced Tuesday (Sept. 6), completing Missouri State's ledger for the upcoming season.

The Lady Bears will play as many as 10 games against seven teams that participated in a postseason tournament in 2015-16, including six contests during the league season and up to four during a challenging non-conference schedule that includes five schools from Power Five football conferences.

Missouri State opens league play on Dec. 30 against defending regular-season champion UNI at JQH Arena, and plays four home games in January, including Drake (Jan. 1), Wichita State (Jan. 6), Illinois State (Jan. 20) and Bradley (Jan. 22). The remainder of the MVC home schedule features games with Southern Illinois (Feb. 10), Evansville (Feb. 12), Indiana State (Feb. 24) and Loyola (Feb. 26).

The Lady Bears play January road league games at Evansville (Jan. 13), Southern Illinois (Jan. 15), Loyola (Jan. 27) and Indiana State (Jan. 29). MSU opens February at Wichita State (Feb. 5), with the remaining away games coming against Bradley (Feb. 17), Illinois State (Feb. 19), Drake (March 2) and UNI (March 4). The MVC Tournament will be held March 9-12 at iWireless Center in Moline, Ill.

MSU opens the 2016-17 campaign with five games away from home, visiting Memphis (Nov. 11), Kansas (Nov. 13) and Northwestern (Nov. 16) before heading north to the Great Alaska Shootout to face Southern Cal and either Alaska Anchorage or Portland on Nov. 22 and 23.

The home opener is slated for Nov. 28 against Little Rock at JQH Arena, and the Lady Bears also welcome Arkansas (Dec. 11), North Texas (Dec. 17) and Middle Tennessee (Dec. 19) to The Q before the MVC season. Additional non-conference road games include trips to Arkansas (Dec. 2) and Oral Roberts (Dec. 7)

Missouri State's exhibition schedule features home games against Truman State (Nov. 1) and Northeastern State (Nov. 6).

Missouri State finished 24-10 last season and advanced to the 14th NCAA Tournament in school history. The Lady Bears return nine players from that squad, including three that started at least 11 games.

MSU season tickets are on sale now by calling (417) 836-8899 or logging on to www.MissouriStateBears.com for more information. Single-game tickets will go on sale at a later date.