There are still some details to be ironed out, but officials at UConn and Texas A&M are trying to set up a two-year home and home deal possibly beginning next season.

Texas A&M coach Gary Blair said on Monday that the sticking point is clearing a spot on the schedule for the upcoming season.

"It is a game where I have to get the return to Purdue changed," Blair said. "We are hoping it will be for the Jimmy V (Classic). Carol Stiff is working on that for ESPN because we want to start a two-year deal with Connecticut. Always when you are the new kid on the block, you always have to go to the new place first and we will do that because it will us a stronger team and to experience playing in Hartford or Storrs, we've never played there. I would enjoy the heck out of it. I think it would make us better in the long run. We have to move some dates, make sure it works out for both teams.

"It depends on the powers that be. The two ADs are talking because Purdue moved last year for us to let us play at Duke in the Jimmy V game and then they came to our place and were very good about it. It's the same thing next year and they can not afford to lose the weekend date and they do not want to play on the Saturday when the men are playing. I don't want to play there on Saturday and play Connecticut on Monday. That is a death wish and we don't want that to happen. We are hoping it works out."

With Texas A&M one game away from winning the national title and adding highly-touted transfer post Kelsey Bone coming in next season, Texas A&M figures to be a top 5 or 10 team in next season's preseason poll. ESPN, always looking to match up top teams. UConn and Texas A&M certainly fit that description.

"It's new," Blair said of the talks between the two schools. "I don't think it would have happened without the platform of the Jimmy V game because television wants two teams that are going to compete later on for the national championship. We went to the Maggie Dixon last year. We were able to play Rutgers and they were able to play Ohio State. I'd love to do those games every year and eventually I'd love to get the Jimmy V game down at our place."

Blair joked that he wouldn't even mind if UConn let Maya Moore suit up when the teams do meet.

"I'll let Geno keep using Maya Moore if I can keep using Danielle Adams," Blair said. "That would be good because I'd love to see those play against each other. My gosh, what a career Maya Moore had. It is just so, so special and so humble too. It is so good to see kids of that magnitude, how she handled herself after that ball game."

PETERS COMING BACK, MALLORY STILL THINKING ABOUT IT
Notre Dame is a win away from its second national title and the scariest part is that it's entirely possible that Becca Bruszewski could be the only player Notre Dame loses off this year's team.

Devereaux Peters and Brittany Mallory are eligible to come back for a fifth season of eligibility. Peters left no doubt that she will return next season.

"I already told the coaches I was coming back," Peters said with a laugh. "I think they would try to fight me if I changed my mind."

Mallory also filed paperwork for a fifth season but it still pondering things.

"I am going to see how we finish off this year, seeing what happens with our team in the summer and just kind of taking it day by day," Mallory said. "For Dev and I, what would be better than knowing we could help this team get to another national championship.

"I have already turned in my fifth-year application so it is just a matter of me just thinking about it. I think I have this whole summer to decide. I think I will step back and do an internship and be focus on what I want to do."