CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard women's basketball opens the Carrie Moore era on Monday as it plays host to Rhode Island at 7 p.m. ET. The game will air live from Lavietes Pavilion on ESPN+.

What to Know

• Moore enters Year 1 after the retirement of Kathy Delaney-Smith, who was at the helm of the Crimson program for 40 years. Moore was named The Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach For Harvard Women's Basketball on April 6, 2022, and arrived in Cambridge after spending the 2021-22 season as an assistant coach at Michigan, helping the Wolverines to a 25-7 record and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament. Moore also had assistant-coaching stints at North Carolina, Princeton and Creighton.

• Harvard will be led by senior co-captains McKenzie Forbes and Maggie McCarthy. In 2021-22, Forbes ranked second on the team in scoring (14.1) and enjoyed a career-high 30-point effort against Penn. McCarthy, meanwhile, started all 27 games a season ago, averaging 7.7 points in a team-high 31.2 minutes. She also shot a Crimson-best 35.2-percent from three-point distance.

• Joining the aforementioned duo is Harmoni Turner, the 2022 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and second-team all-Ivy performer. Turner led Harvard in scoring (15.9), rebounding (6.5), steals (66) and free-throw percentage (.803), while ranking second in assists (68) and third in three-point field goals (50).

• Lola Mullaney, a junior from New Jersey, was a second-team all-Ivy League selection after averaging 12.7 points and 3.7 rebounds in 2021-22. The guard connected on a Crimson-best 59 treys and was one of three Harvard players to average at least 30 minutes (30.0, joining Turner and McCarthy).

• Harvard is coming off a 13-14 campaign (7-8 Ivy League) a year ago and nearly advanced to the championship game at the Ivy League tournament, which took place at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson and Tigers were tied with 6:45 left in the fourth quarter, but the top-seeded visitors were too much in the end, earning a 72-67 victory.

• The Crimson is looking for its first season-opening victory since a road win at Northern Illinois to open the 2019-20 season (Nov. 5, 2019).

• Harvard is opening a campaign at home for the first time since 2015-16, when it played host to Maine.

• The Crimson is looking for its first season-opening home victory since a 68-53 decision over Colgate (Nov. 15, 2014).

• Harvard is meeting Rhode Island for the 20th time in series history, one in which the Crimson leads, 10-9.

• The Crimson dropped the last meeting a year ago in Kingston, Rhode Island, but has won two of the last three against Rams.

• This season's meeting will mark the fourth straight year the teams have shared the court, with the exception of 2020-21, when the pandemic wiped away the Ivy League slate.

• The game vs. Rhode Island marks the first of three straight home games to open 2022-23. Boston College pays Lavietes Pavilion a visit on Thursday, Nov. 10, before UMass heads to Cambridge for a game on Friday, Nov. 18.

Up Next

Harvard returns to Lavietes Pavilion on Thursday, Nov. 10, when it plays host to Boston College. Tip is set for 7 p.m. ET with the game airing on ESPN+.