From the mailbag, about what should be an interesting game on Sunday when Va Tech plays Maryland for its first ever ACC game:

Maryland still trying to recuperate from the loss of freshman Laura Harper for the season. Terrapins won their "classic" at Comcast, beating Massachusetts and Marshall. They still have plenty of young talent, but losing Harper so close to the start of conference play forces Frese to try some new patterns and rotations on the fly.

Tech, under its new head coach, has had a decent early part of the season (including a nice win over Texas Tech), and it will be interesting to see how it reacts to being in a new conference, as it will for Miami this year and Boston College the next. I only wish the ACC played 16 league games rather than 14. As women's hoops continues to become more evenly matched, there's no reason for conferences to play fewer league games than their male counterparts.

Yeah, that's lame. In the Big Ten, both men and women play 16, but it's still frustrating that we can't do the full double round robin. This year, for example, we won't get to see Penn State or Ohio State at Williams.