After three weeks of practicing, UConn shifts into game mode when Division II Saint Rose visits Gampel Pavilion tomorrow night for a 7:30 p.m. exhibition game.

The expected starting lineup for UConn is Lorin Dixon and Tiffany Hayes at guard, Kalana Greene and Maya Moore at forward and Tina Charles at center.

Dixon will get the first shot at point guard for the graduated Renee Montgomery with Caroline Doty coming off the bench.

"She (Dixon) has earned it over a period of time," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "She has done it in a lot of areas, she has improved a lot mentally and physically."

Auriemma approach for the exhibitions hasn't changed over the years.

"Just to be pretty good at the stuff we worked at," Auriemma said. "You say that all the time about exhibition games, there is no mystery to it. You are only going to be so good, you are only going to be able to do so many things well so for me those things have to be the things we practiced for three weeks. There are certain things that we have worked on every single day so I want to make sure we are good at those things. We are going to pass the ball well, we catch the ball, we get good shots, we do a better good job defensively and rebounding the ball. To me, those are the things, the only things can show you, there are some combinations that can't be out there together. It will be important to me in the first two games getting the right people out there with the other right people and then get back in the game mode. It's been a while since Caroline (Doty) played in a game, Kelly (Faris) has never played in a college game, (Heather) Buck's never played in a college game. A couple of our big guys have never played without Renee so you go into the game and kind of see what you see."