Camera Staff Report

A schedule that features at least five games against last season's NCAA Tournament teams awaits the Colorado women's basketball team next year, coach Ceal Barry announced Wednesday.

Colorado's 2002 schedule will also include a trip to the Preseason Women's NIT. The Buffs have not been to the WNIT since the 1995-96 season. CU won the WNIT in 1995.

Colorado faces Oral Roberts on Nov. 9 at home in the Coors Events Center in the first round of the WNIT. The winner plays at a site to be determined on Nov. 11.

Other WNIT teams include Connecticut, Stephen F. Austin, Fairfield and Vanderbilt, which eliminated Colorado from the NCAA tournament last season.

Vanderbilt is on the Colorado side of the bracket and the teams would meet in the semifinals if they get through the first two rounds.

The semifinals will take place on Nov. 15 or Nov. 16, with the championship on either Sunday, Nov. 18 or Monday, Nov. 19 at a site to be determined.

The schedule also allows for a reunion of sorts.

Former CU All-American Shelley Sheetz returns to Boulder Nov. 20 when the Buffs host the University of San Diego, for which Sheetz is an assistant coach.

For the 15th annual Coors Classic, CU will bring in Bowling Green State, Houston and Yale for the yearly Thanksgiving weekend tournament Nov. 23-24. CU faces Bowling Green in its first game.

CU travels to Fort Collins on Nov. 28 for its third-straight in-state game against Colorado State. Both teams went to the NCAA Tournament last winter.

In another in-state game, Air Force comes to town Dec. 5 to play CU for the first time since 1978. Wyoming also comes to Boulder with a Dec. 12 game.

CU Nonconference Games

Nov. 3: Exhibition Game, 7 p.m.

Nov. 9: Oral Roberts, 7 p.m.

Nov. 20: San Diego, 7 p.m.

Nov. 23-24: Coors Classic Tournament

Nov. 28: at Colorado State, TBA

Dec. 2: Iowa, 2 p.m.

Dec. 5: Air Force Academy, 7 p.m.

Dec. 8: at UCLA, 2 p.m.

Dec. 12: Wyoming, 7 p.m.

Dec. 21: at Florida, TBA

Dec. 29: vs. LSU (Lubbock, Texas), TBA

Jan. 2-Feb. 27: Big 12 Conference Season

Home: Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M

Away: Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas Tech

Home & Away: Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska

March 5-9: Big 12 Tournament (Kansas City, Mo.)

March 15-18: NCAA First/Second Rounds (Campus Sites)

March 23 & 25: NCAA Regionals

East: Raleigh, N.C. (North Carolina State)

Mideast: Milwaukee, Wis. (Marquette)

Midwest: Ames, Iowa (Iowa State)

West: Boise, Idaho (Boise State)

March 29 & 31: Final Four (San Antonio, Texas)