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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 UConnTennessee 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