Ginger Colvin's Lady Tiger basketball team might be returning 90 percent of the players who logged the most minutes during last season's 33-3 run, but the 2010-11 schedule gives her no reason for pause.

"Believe it or not, I'm sitting here right now trying to find two more games," Colvin said one morning from behind her office desk.

But without two more games, the Lady Tigers still may embark on one of the tougher campaigns in program history. Sprinkled in an 18-game conference schedule are road games against the likes of Bethel (Tenn.), McKendree (Ill.), William Woods (Mo.) and Columbia (Mo.) College.

"Last year was as hard as it could be with all the travel," acknowledged Colvin. "We won a lot of close games. All those road trips and back-to-back games, I think, toughened us up in the long run."

Union University comes to town on Saturday, Dec. 4 - the last team to hand CU a home-court loss (Nov 1, 2008). The Lady Tigers have a 25-game home winning streak and CU will have a shot at making it 28 in a row by the time the Bulldogs bring their potential No. 1 ranking to the Powell Athletic Center.

Campbellsville opens its season on Saturday, Nov. 6 with a home match-up against Morris College, the same team that played the Lady Tigers to within eight points last year in a 99-87 slugfest in Sumter, S.C.

The Lady Tigers then go on a five-game trip that introduces them to the road with Friday-Saturday games at Bethel College against Wilberforce and host Bethel, and then another weekend road trip to McKendree (Ill.) University where they play the host school and Missouri Baptist. Sandwiched in-between is a road encounter with Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn., a Trans-South Conference opponent that played eventual NAIA champion Union U. to a six-point game last year.

A 10-team Mid-South Conference race begins Thursday, Dec. 2 at home with MSC newcomer Shawnee State.

"They gave me my worst defeat as a coach when we played them up there my first year," said Colvin. "They've been a perennial power in NAIA Div. II."

"It's going to be real interesting in the league this year. We've got three teams that played well in the national tournament and another one that just barely missed getting there," said Colvin."

University of the Cumberlands and Lindsey Wilson both lost overtime match-ups against St. (Ill.) Xavier and Vanguard, respectively. And CU was an overtime away from making the Fab Four.

Colvin likes the expanded conference because it gives her squad two more home games that weren't necessarily guaranteed otherwise.

"Our conference schedule is pretty demanding," said Colvin. "Fortunately we open with two home games  against a couple of tough opponents and then end it with two of our biggest rivals at home and with seven graduating seniors. It will be a pretty high week emotionally for us."

2010-11 SCHEDULE