i like this schedule with the same fervor i dislike our football schedule. both the men's and the women's basketball programs are scheduling up, playing the best, and both will improve and attract top recruits as a result because it's axiomatic, you get to be the best by playing the best. you can write in some losses right now--gonzaga and washington state, pacific and santa clara (refs on the road)--but this schedule will toughen us up for conference and post-season play. hats off to tinks and o'day (as well as robin selvig) and thanks for scheduling two games in my neck of the woods though no arena down here is big enough to hold me and gb1.