With UConn two days away from potentially tying the NCAA Division I record 88-game winning streak currently held by the UCLA men's basketball program, it shouldn't come as a shock that UConn's streak dominated the conversation.

As to be expected, UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma handled the flood of inquiries from the assembled media rather deftly including how he is preparing his team for Sunday's game against Ohio State.

"Nothing that much different from throughout the other games," Auriemma said. Other than Tiffany (Hayes) and Maya (Moore), they haven't been a part of it. It would be a different case if the same group of people had been here, present for all 87 games I think my approach would be much different than it would be this coming weekend with this group. I think the only thing you can do if you really harp on this is scare the living daylights out of the freshmen and I don't intend to do that.

"I am a little uncomfortable saying your team is better than the UCLA team because first of all, you don't compete against the same people but if you want to compare what we have tried to do here in the sense of how we put our program together to sustain year after year after year, I would be honored to be in that company of people who do that. It is the same with the Yankees, it is the same with the Montreal Canadiens, it is the same with the Boston Celtics. If you think about certain programs and franchises, every year you have to talk about them being championship contenders. Any other comparison I don't particularly like."

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