When the No. 3 women's basketball team travels to the Curry Hicks Cage to take on Massachusetts at 7:30 tonight there will be a noted change in the lineup.

Sophomore center Tina Henry will start in place of Kathy Phillips and senior shooting guard Shelly Caplinger will see substantial time, possibly even garnering the starting spot from Lynn Dougherty.

"Tina will start and Lynn and Shelly will split time," assistant coach Ann Troyan said.

But Troyan added that the lineup changes are,"not set in stone."

The lineup juggling comes in the wake of the Lady Lions' fall from the No. 1 spot on Monday. But whoever the team puts on the floor should look to beat up on the hapless Minutewomen. The team is currently winless (0-11) and has lost four key players throughout the course of the season causing Coach Kathy Hewelt to start two freshmen.

"It is painfully obvious that we are very, very overmatched," she said. "We have set goals that our kids can reach."

The biggest and most recent loss has been center Keyburn McCusker, a former A-10 Player of the Week earlier this season, with a broken bone in her hand. McCusker was averaging 17.4 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. Other notable players that are not playing are Trish Riley, who has not recovered sufficiently from a medical redshirt, Patty Robak, a member of the A-10 All-Freshman team, transferred due to homesickness and Trish Hessel is doubtful due to a charley horse just above the knee.

The players that should see a lot of playing time will be sophomore's Kim Kristofik (6.4 ppg), Lisa Ireland (4.6 ppg) and Gloria Nevarez along with freshman Jessica Shusler and Cherie Muza.

"(The injuries) put us in a position of starting a very inexperienced team on the floor," Hewelt said. "And it creates a problem when we have freshmen coming off the bench."

This inexperience has led to such losses as an 81-31 stomping by Rutgers, a 54-28 whipping to George Washington and most recently a 92-35 annihilation to West Virginia.

So with all the problems that Massachusetts has faced this season this game points to an easy Penn State romp. In fact, the Lady Lions are 13-1 against the Minutewomen with their only loss coming in 1984. But guard Dana Eikenberg sees it differently.

"It's a tough gym to play in and we are ranked No. 3 in the country and everybody is going to be coming after us.

"You can't take teams like Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Duquesne, lightly," she added.

Over the few days that the team has had to digest its loss to Rutgers, the players have readjusted their goals.

"We don't really want to lose another game, point blank," Eikenberg said. "We feel we have the talent and the experience to go undefeated the rest of the way."

Eikenberg also added that the team has worked a lot on the mental aspect of the game the last few days.