FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A group trying to bring a WNBA team to Colorado saidTuesday that it hadn’t found enough interest from investors to continue pursuinga team for 2008.

Triple Crown Sports left the door open for the future, though.

The group said it had agreed with the WNBA to meet financial criteria forthe expansion Colorado Chill by Saturday but couldn’t raise enough money.

“In summary, we are not financially qualified to own an expansion team atthis time; and that should we become qualified through partnering or growth ofour core business, we would still be very interested in the WNBA,” Triple CrownSports said in a statement.

Triple Crown Sports owner Dave King told the Coloradoan his group had about40 percent of what it needed. “We didn’t come up with the operating capital of$5 million to $7 million to do it,” King told the newspaper.