Cathy Miller, a native South African, is the team's leading returning scorer (7.9 ppg) and rebounder (5.3 rpg). At 6'3, Keri Larkin is the team's tallest player and should get some quality minutes off the bench.

The heart of the Bear team is forward Kate Veronneau, a senior who was the 1997 Rookie of the Year and is currently co-captain. A 6'1 power forward, Veronneau can post-up smaller defenders but still has the three-point range.

The rest of the Brown team is either inexperienced or ineffective. Becca Jones and Erin-Kate Barton are upperclassmen who figure to get some minutes down low but who played rather poorly last season. Finally, forward Nicole Brown, a 5'10 senior, will try to rebound from a knee injury that sidelined her all of last year and return to her sophomore form, when she started 25 of 26 games.

"We are a very hard-working team," said 12th-year coach Jean Marie Burr, the winningest coach in Brown history. "This is also one of the most athletic teams I've ever coached."

Unfortunately for Burr, that hard work and athleticism won't return the Bears to the winning days of the early 1990's.

7. YALE

Emphasize the "new" in New Haven this year. New coach, new center, new forwards, new guards--everything is new for the Bulldogs (10-16, 5-9, t-6th).

New Coach Amy Backus comes from Northwestern, where she was an assistant who helped lead the team to an NCAA berth in 1997. Backus likes the challenges of everything being new, insisting on calling the team "teachable."