While the return of former UConn assistant coach Tonya Cardoza to Gampel Pavilion for the NCAA subregional has made headlines, there was another potential reunion which could have taken place if the NCAA selection committee seeded teams by records and RPIs rather than taking geography and travel costs into consideration.

Evansville is the only team in the tournament with a losing record and only Austin Peay has a lower RPI yet Evansville received the 15th seed in the Trenton bracket while Vermont was seeded 16th and earn the enviable task of playing at top-ranked, top-seeded and undefeated UConn in the first round.

Perhaps nobody was more disappointed that Evansville wasn't given the invite to Storrs more than UConn sophomore forward Maya Moore who was a high school teammate of Evansville senior guard and Missouri Valley Conference tournament MVP Ashley Austin at Collins Hill High in Suwanee, Ga.

"I really hadn’t hooked up with her this year but I am happy to see them in the tournament," Moore said. I cheered when I saw them on TV. I haven’t had a chance to see my old teammates because I have gone so far away from Georgia."

Moore did find it ironic that two kids from Georgia would be going to the NCAA tournament with schools based in Connecticut and Indiana.

"It is great, it is a small world," Moore said.

Actually, Florida has a former Collins Hill star as well in Jordan Jones but if Jones plans on coming to Gampel Pavilion to watch the Gators play Temple on Sunday, she will have to pay her own way since the NCAA does not allow for schools to provide transportation to road games for transfer students. Jones played at South Carolina as a freshman before transferring to Florida.

There's no lack of UConn coverage in the Register this morning including an advance to the men's NCAA opener, a column on the men's team needing to regain its swagger as well as stories on Hasheem Thabeet and A.J. Price. On the women's side, there is a feature on the on-court bond between Maya Moore and Renee Montgomery and a report on Geno Auriemma being named a finalist for the Naismith Women's Coach of the Year award. The Maya/Renee story is not online yet but is expected to be put up this afternoon. A version of the story is available via the Bristol Press website. There is also a UConn trivia quiz in the paper.