Former UConn stars Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi finished atop the WNBA charts in assists and scoring respectively.

Bird, in her eighth season with the Seattle Storm, averaged 5.8 assists per game to finish ahead of Sacramento's Ticha Penicheiro (5.2), San Antonio's Becky Hammon and Phoenix's Cappie Pondexter, who each averaged 5 assists per game.

Seimone Augustus' 21.4 scoring average actually was the best in the league but she played just six games before a knee injury ended her season ended. Among those who qualified, Taurasi's 20.4 PPG was the league's best. Hammon, Lauren Jackson of Seattle and Pondexter were the only other players to average at least 19 points a contest.

UConn also led the league in double-figure scorers with five (Taurasi 20.4, Asjha Jones 16.7, Charde Houston 13.1, Bird 12.8, Swin Cash 12.2) followed bt Tennessee's four (Tamika Catchings 15.1, Chamique Holdsclaw, Nicky Anosike 13.2, Candace Parker 13.1).

YOW'S PRESENCE STILL FELT
Former North Carolina State coach Kay Yow can still raise the funds even months after her death.

A total of $175,000 was raised at the Second Annual Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund 4Kay Golf Classic, up from $142,000 in last year's inaugural event. The sport's bigger names got into the spirit of things.

UConn coach Geno Auriemma and former NC State interim coach Stephanie Glance got into a bidding war for Yow’s director’s chair. Auriemma won with a $5,000 bid and then gave the chair back to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.

Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt donated a pink cowboy hat for a live auction. Summitt $2000, on the condition that Texas assistant Mickie DeMoss, a former assistant coach on Summitt's Tennessee staff, wear the hat during a 2009-10 regular season game. Virginia Tech head coach Beth Dunkenberger volunteered to increase the bid if Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors would wear the hat to coach a televised game. The hat drew $10,000 and the stipulation that Goestenkors and Summitt each wear a similar hat to coach in a Dec. 6 game between the two teams.