Local roundup: Pacific women’s basketball schedule will be a challenge

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The Pacific Tigers women’s basketball program released its full 2018-19 schedule in what looks to be a number of competitive non-conference and West Coast Conference slate of games.

The Tigers will take on eight teams that qualified for either the NCAA Tournament or Women’s National Invitational Tournament in the 2017-18 season as well as a Power Five opponent, Pacific’s annual home tournament, the Tiger Turkey Tipoff will be held on Nov. 23 and 24. WCC play opens on New Year’s Eve at Spanos Center against Saint Mary’s.

On Nov. 13, Pacific takes on UC Davis, a team that went to the WNIT quarterfinals last year before falling to the eventual champs, Indiana. Five days later,…