The WNBA announced its postseason schedule. The conference semifinals will run from Aug. 25-30 with the higher seed playing at home in the opening game as well as the third game, if the series goes the distance.

The conference finals are set for Sept. 2-8 with the game home-away-home setup for the higher seed. The WNBA championships series is a best of five affair beginning on Sept. 12.

The schedule is not going to make UConn coach Geno Auriemma very happy, not that he didn't already know it was going to work out this way, since he will begin training camp for the World Championships on Sept. 3. If the playoffs started today and the top two seeds in each conference advanced to the conference finals, among those in the U.S. national team pool who would not be there for the start of camp would include Seattle's Sue Bird and Swin Cash, Phoenix's Diana Taurasi and Candice Dupree, Tamika Catchings of Indiana and Angel McCoughtry of Atlanta.