Geno Auriemma was in rare form at an event sponsored by Dunkin' Donuts honoring the UConn women's basketball team's NCAA Division I basketball record 89-game winning streak.

Auriemma repeated what he proclaimed before the season that he did not see any way that his current team - featuring as many freshmen as healthy veteran players - would record a third straight undefeated season.

"You know it (a loss) is (coming) you just don’t know when. It is on its way just like Christmas and New Year’s, it is on its way," Auriemma said.

"Somewhere along the line there is going to be something that is going to happen and when that day or night comes, it comes. I don’t know when it is going to be. It could be at Stanford, it could be at any one of those others places. I am ready for it. I don’t think this should go on forever. If it goes on forever, it won’t mean as much. It has to end so we can appreciate what it took to get there."

Among the other topics Auriemma was asked about during a question and answer session with fans in attendance were the Maya Moore/Diana Taurasi who is the greatest Husky of all time debate, the state of mind of injured guard Caroline Doty and the best Secret Santa gift he has received from one of his players.

On Moore/Taurasi, Auriemma admitted he was being sarcastic about picking Moore over Taurasi because Moore is still here and Taurasi is playing professionally.

"If you put the two of them in front of me right now and asked me to pick one over the other to start my team tomorrow, I wouldn’t be able to do it," Auriemma said.

His comments on Doty and how difficult it was not being able to play as the Huskies won games No. 88 and 89 were particularly telling.

"The other night for the first time this season I did see that this has had an affect on Caroline not being able to play," Auriemma said. "I think the other night she sat there, the look on her face and what was going on was the first time that it really hit her that ‘I am really missing on something. No matter what I am doing on the sidelines, no matter what I am doing behind the scenes I am not as much a part of this as I would like to be. It’s been really hard."

Auriemma said that Doty has been trying to convince her head coach that she could play a few minutes here and there even as she recovers from another torn ACL.

"If you ask me, ‘no, there’s no chance whatsoever she is playing this year.’ If you ask her, she tells me every game, during every timeout she will look at the scoreboard and go ‘how about I just play the last five minutes,’" Auriemma said. "I said ‘no, how about you go back to what you were doing.’ So the next game she’ll go ‘three minutes, let me have three minutes.’ I’ll say ‘nope.’ The other night she wanted to play the whole second half. She never stops asking but no, she is not going to play."

Now onto the subject of Christmas gifts:
"Heather Buck had me as a Secret Santa. She lives in Stonington and she got me frozen scallops. Tell me how many of you ever got frozen scallops. Who’s better than Heather Buck."

Auriemma also had an interesting take of going from receiving a congratulatory phone call from President Barack Obama on Tuesday night to posing with photos with a pair of Dunkin' Donuts mascots on Thursday morning.

"That’s the unique situation that you are on national television talking to the President, the leader of the free world and the next thing you know you are getting your picture taken with a donut and a cup of coffee," Auriemma said. "The experience of being the UConn coach knows no bounds. That is why I think you keep a humorous side to it, keep it in perspective and you don’t try to get too caught up in any part of it."