It's a little crowded at the top of the NCAA record book as the current UConn squad matched the 2001-03 Huskies' NCAA Division I record with its 70th straight win.

UConn matched the mark with a 77-41 win over Syracuse in the Big East quarterfinals at the XL Center on Sunday.

"To be honest, I personally haven't been thinking about it at all," UConn junior Maya Moore said. "It's one of those things where at the end of the season you can look up and hopefully be proud of anything or any records that get set, but right now we're really focusing on Notre Dame (UConn's opponent in Monday's semifinals). We started out just the way we wanted to, and any record or history doesn't really mean much if we don't accomplish our next goal, and that's beating Notre Dame."

UConn coach Geno Auriemma agreed with his star that it's not the Huskies' style to focus on anything but winning the next game.

"It's very difficult while you're doing it," Auriemma said. "It's like a guy throwing a no hitter. The object is to win the game and strike out as many guys as you can and get guys to swing at bad pitches and all that other stuff.
You're not necessarily thinking in the 5th inning, hey, I can't give you a hit because I'm pitching a no-hitter because sure enough the next guy is going to hit one off the back wall. You don't think about it while you're doing it. After it's over, you want to look back and say, hey, this is what we did.

"The average person out there thinks we get up every morning and like we're in a prison cell. We get up every morning, go to the wall and carve out another X and say that's one less day I've got to worry about this. It's so far from what the reality is. I don't think there's been one day that I've gone to practice thinking at all about how many games we've won, honest to God. And the average person won't understand that, but it's true. It's honest to God true."

The game was the Tina Charles show as the senior center set a Big East tournament record with 16 field goals and equaled her career high with 34 points. Maya Moore flirted with a triple-double before finishing with 16 points, 14 rebounds, seven assists, five steals and one block in 25 minutes. She also became the seventh UConn player to score 2,000 points but did it faster than anybody else. It took Moore 108 games while it took the previous record holder Kerry Bascom 113 games.