Setting the table for a difficult run through the Iowa Conference gamut in the 2013-14 season, the Central women’s basketball team did not face any slouches in their non-conference schedule last year. The Dutch got off to the best start in program history with a 6 – 0 record, and finished with an 8 – 3 mark entering league play. Coach Chelsea Petersen says next season will be no different with the caliber of teams they face, and it’s more about the focus from game-to-game than it is an entire group of contests. One key subtraction from the schedule is that the Dutch will not be playing defending national champion, Fairleigh Dickinson this year. Central held them to their lowest point total until they reached the Final Four in Division III, a feat Coach Petersen says just shows how well her team was playing before being hampered by injuries.

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