There's still some red tape to be cleared before CPTV releases its schedule. It is looking like it could happen by the end of next week but rest assured, the folks at CPTV are doing everything in their power to bring every game not contracted out to another station into your homes.

Another bit of info that might be interesting to some is that is it rather unlikely that any of the players invited to the USA Basketball trials who are playing in the WNBA finals (Diana Taurasi, Cappie Pondexter, Tamika Catchings and Ebony Hoffman) will be able to join the U.S. team for the three international friendlies in Russia. That would especially be the case if Indiana hold on and wins tonight to even the championship series at 1-1.

With the 2010 World Championships starting on September 23, the WNBA will need to use to the same scheduling blueprint the league used in 2007 when the regular season ended on August 19 and the championship series wrapped up on September 16. If that is the case and there is a U.S. national team training camp, it will likely not be able to include any players in the WNBA finals just like the one currently being held in Washington, D.C. The good news is that the EuroLeague Final Four will end on April 11 so if the 2010 WNBA season begins in early May as it did back in 2007, most of the players should be be finished with their European playing commitments in plenty of time for the start of the regular season.

For those dreaming of the U.S. national team facing UConn in an exhibition game in 2010, the fact that the U.S. squad would likely be leaving for the Czech Republic in mid September, about a month before college teams hold their first official practice, should put an end to those thoughts. With the 2012 Olympic women's basketball tournament set to run from July 27-August 12, it appears as if the only time the U.S. team could square off against the best college teams in exhibition games would be in 2011.