CPTV released it’s women’s basketball coverage for the 2007-08 season. The Huskies’ women will play 21 of their games on CPTV. The only game as of right now that does not have television coverage is the game against Syracuse on January 15th. The preseason game against the US National Team on November 2nd and the three games from the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands over Thanksgiving weekend will be also shown on CPTV. You can see the full schedule by clicking here.
John Altavilla has a great story in today’s Hartford Courant about what ESPN had planned for the UConn–Tennessee game that was originally schedule for this year. ESPN was planning on holding it’s first ever “Women’s Gameday” from Knoxville.
“ESPN was planning to do its first women’s basketball Game Day,” said Donna DeMarco, associate commissioner of the Big East. “That opportunity going away was not good for anyone – the fans, the conferences, the institutions, the networks.”
It looks Pat Summitt blew this one for women’s basketball. A great opportunity gone by the wayside. It’s not that the two schools need anymore publicity, it’s the fact that this would have been huge for women’s basketball as a whole. This was something ESPN had never done before and women’s basketball would have been the showcase event on ESPN that day. Now it is not.
Some of the preseason publications are out for women’s basketball and it looks like the UConn Huskies are on top in two of the four. They are second in the other two with Tennessee on top in those. In looking at the polls overall, it looks to be an exciting season in women’s basketball.
| Sporting News Top-25 | WBB Magazine Top-25 | Athlon Top-25 | Lindy’s Top-25 |
| 1. Tennessee | 1. Connecticut | 1. Connecticut | 1. Tennessee |
| 2. Connecticut | 2. Tennessee | 2. LSU | 2. Connecticut |
| 3. Maryland | 3. LSU | 3. Tennessee | 3. Rutgers |
| 4. Rutgers | 4. Maryland | 4. Rutgers | 4. Maryland |
| 5. Oklahoma | 5. Rutgers | 5. Maryland | 5. LSU |
| 6. North Carolina | 6. Georgia | 6. Georgia | 6. Oklahoma |
| 7. Duke | 7. Texas A&M | 7. Stanford | 7. North Carolina |
| 8. Georgia | 8. Stanford | 8. California | 8. Duke |
| 9. Ohio State | 9. North Carolina | 9. Texas A&M | 9. Texas A&M |
| 10. Stanford | 10. Duke | 10. North Carolina | 10. Stanford |
| 11. George Washington | 11. California | 11. Duke | 11. Arizona State |
| 12. LSU | 12. West Virginia | 12. Arizona State | 12. Georgia |
| 13. Middle Tennessee | 13. Arizona State | 13. Baylor | 13. George Washington |
| 14. Texas A&M | 14. Oklahoma | 14. West Virginia | 14. Baylor |
| 15. California | 15. Baylor | 15. Oklahoma | 15. California |
| 16. Arizona State | 16. Texas | 16. Texas A&M | 16. Florida State |
| 17. Baylor | 17. Auburn | 17. DePaul | 17. Michigan State |
| 18. Vanderbilt | 18. DePaul | 18. Ohio State | 18. Pittsburgh |
| 19. Michigan State | 19. Ohio State | 19. Auburn | 19. Notre Dame |
| 20. Xavier | 20. Wisconsin | 20. Wisconsin | 20. Texas A&M |
| 21. North Carolina State | 21. Pittsburgh | 21. Pittsburgh | 21. Louisville |
| 22. Notre Dame | 22. Florida State | 22. Florida State | 22. Middle Tennessee |
| 23. Florida State | 23. Michigan State | 23. Michigan State | 23. Oklahoma State |
| 24. Texas | 24. Louisville | 24. George Washington | 24. West Virginia |
| 25. Pittsburgh | 25. George Washington | 25. Louisville | 25. Purdue |
