The 2009-10 Big East schedule is not out yet but thanks to ESPN sending out an e-mail about its planned stops for the Primetime game of the week broadcast, it has been confirmed that Notre Dame will play at UConn at Gampel Pavilion on Jan. 16.

It is the first time the College Game Day/Primetime Game of the Week broadcasts have originated at the women's game. Unfortunately for those opposed to late starts, the game will tip off a few minutes after 9 p.m. Here's the schedule

Date Site Game (All 9 p.m. ET on ESPN unless otherwise noted)
Jan. 16 Storrs, Conn. Notre Dame at Connecticut (women’s)
Jan. 23 Clemson, S.C. Duke at Clemson
Jan. 30 Manhattan, Kan. Kansas at Kansas State (6 p.m. show and game at 7 p.m.)
Feb. 6 Champaign, Ill. Michigan State at Illinois
Feb. 13 Lexington, Ky. Tennessee at Kentucky
Feb. 20 Seattle, Wash. UCLA at Washington
Feb. 27 Syracuse, N.Y. Villanova at Syracuse
Mar. 6 Durham, N.C. North Carolina at Duke

Staying on the ESPN theme, spare me the e-mails about how UConn has been disrespected because the players who have previously committed to UConn have dropped in the latest ESPN/Hoopgurlz rankings. Anybody who has read this blog should know by now that there are few things which cause me to yawn with more frequency than rankings done by internet "experts." Dating back to the days when UConn signed Ashley Battle and Jessica Moore, I offered the same bit of advice - I value the recruiting rankings done by Geno Auriemma and Chris Dailey over any of the recruiting services. Are the UConn coaches right 100 percent of the time? No they are not. But with six national championships, three undefeated seasons, five WNBA All-Stars, two of the eight "core" players on the U.S. Senior National Team with other ex-Huskies strong candidates to join Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi on the 2012 Olympic team, I think they are doing OK in the player evaluation department. If you don't approve of the Hoopgurlz rankings, don't visit the site but if you are expecting me to call them to task and do your dirty work for you, don't bother. It is so far down on my list of priorities in terms of covering the UConn program that it is laughable - as is the reaction to these rankings.

In other scheduling news, Vermont has released its non-conference schedule and the UConn game will be on Dec. 2. This is what I know for sure regarding the non-conference portion of the 2009-10 schedule.

Nov. 14 vs. Northeastern
Nov. 17 vs. Texas (at San Antonio)
Dec. 3 vs. Vermont
Dec. 20 vs. Iona
Dec. 23 vs. Stanford
Feb. 15 at Oklahoma

UConn will also play Hartford (at the XL Center), North Carolina and will face Clemson, Hofstra and Richmond in the WBCA Classic. The road games are against Holy Cross, Florida State and Duke. One of those, likely Duke, will be on Jan. 18 (Martin Luther King Day) making it a pretty challenging three-day span from Jan. 16-18 for the Huskies.

For this interested in such things, both Florida State and Clemson have recaps of its recently completed trips to South Africa and Canada respectively..