Trying to build upon the best season in program history with a new head coach and without your best player is no easy task. That's the situation facing the Lincoln women's basketball team.
The Blue Tigers replaced Katie Vaughn with assistant coach Nicole Collier and lost leading scorer and rebounder Vivan Essuon to graduation.
Luckily for the Blue Tigers, they will only have to face the top three teams in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, based on the 2011-12 standings, once next season as opposed the league's usual home-and-home format, it was announced when the 2012-13 schedule was released Wednesday.