The UNM women's basketball individual camp is next week, running Tuesday through Thursday. Lobos coach Don Flanagan promises a lot of recruits are in the bunch and expects a great field of players. Although people are welcome to watch the workouts daily, the all-star games will be Thursday morning at 9 a.m. in the Rudy Davalos Center and The Pit.
The suspense will be over soon ... Flanagan will release the 2006-07 women's basketball schedule Tuesday. No amount of begging and cajoling by myself or any other reporters in town convinced the coach to share any specific details about the lineup early.
I wrote last month that Flanagan called it one of his strongest schedules ever and better than last year's challenging lineup. He also said the Lobos steady climb into the national spotlight and Top 25 ranking didn't hurt scheduling. The common complaint among men's basketball and football coaches from smaller conferences like the Mountain West is that they have a hard time scheduling bigger name schools when their programs are on the rise because they are no longer an easy win. Flanagan joked, "I guess we're just better at it." To be fair, women's basketball coaches seem to understand the value of scheduling tough to keep their RPIs high and playing in The Pit to prepare their teams for the most hostile environments on the path to the Final Four.

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