I'm not sure what was more impressive, the dominating defensive effort by UConn in the Huskies demolition of Holy Cross or the performance of Holy Cross coach Bill Gibbons in the post-game press conference.

Gibbons started off by telling the story of one of his golfing buddies making up "41 and Done" t-shirts and threatening to wear them to Friday's game. Gibbons begged him not to knowing the odds were slim and none that a Holy Cross team that lost to Yale would be able to snap UConn's 41-game winning streak.

Midway through his entertaining question and answer session, I asked him his impressions of Heather Buck since he recruited the former Stonington High star extremely hard and was disappointed when she chose to head to UConn.

"We (Gibbons and UConn coach Geno Auriemma) were kidding around during shootaround and he said 'I keep telling Buck that if she keeps playing like this, we are leaving her at Holy Cross but then Billy's going to send her back in a week,'" Gibbons said. "I said 'please leave her.' Obviously she is somebody we are missing, we lost out on her, we lost out on a 6-5 kid last year. It's been tough to get over the hump. She is such a great kid and I thought she has gotten bigger and stronger, real athletic. I would love to see her in purple and white. She is a going to get better in their system because she is going to get pushed every day in practice."

Buck spoke very highly of Gibbons when I spoke to her at Thursday's practice.

"It was a situation where it was close to home, I could have gone there, played and stayed with my best friend (Holy Cross guard Meredith Ward)," Buck said. "(Also) Coach Gibbons is one of the nicest people so it is hard to say no to somebody like that. They hung around for a long time."

A few other notes:
The win was the 699th of Auriemma's career. He will go for No. 700 on Nov. 27 when UConn meets Hofstra at 7:30 p.m. on the first day of the WBCA Classic at Gampel Pavilion.

While it is not news that UConn is playing at Stanford next season, the dates have been finalized. The Huskies will play in Palo Alto on Dec. 30, 2010, two days after starting the two-game California swing with a game against Pacific.

Gibbons said he wouldn't mind moving the UConn game back on campus to the Hart Center. The schools will continue the 2 for 1 deal meaning the game will be played in Connecticut the next two seasons and will be played in Worcester during the 2012-13 season.

Connecticut Sun head coach Mike Thibault and assistant coach Scott Hawk were at the DCU Center doing a little scouting. Jeez, I wonder who they were scouting, cough, Tina Charles, cough.

You will not see a better offensive move than Maya Moore' catch of a lead pass in the lane and her hesitation dribble leading to a layup. That was one sweet play.