If you want to truly understand just how young this current UConn team is consider that only three of the nine healthy Huskies have played at Rutgers.

So tomorrow night Kelly Faris, Heather Buck, Stefanie Dolson, Bria Hartley, Michala Johnson and Lauren Engeln will be introduced to a new experience. Buck may have some sense of the energy that UConn's arrival causes at the Louis Brown Athletic Center since she was on the roster as a redshirt the last time the Huskies made the trip down to Piscataway, N.J.

With the Big East changing things up and replacing Rutgers with Notre Dame as the team the Huskies play twice in the Big East regular-season schedule, there are no longer annual trips to Rutgers. It is something that UConn coach Geno Auriemma seems to miss even though he is the subject of boobirds and taunts every time UConn plays at Rutgers.

"I think it will always be there, them being who they are," Auriemma said on Monday two days before UConn plays at Rutgers. "I don't think it is the same as it was a few years ago. Things change. When we were playing them twice every year, that makes it even more of a competitive thing. All it is going to take is one really good game by them, one bad game by us down there. They win and all of a sudden it is all back to the craziness that it used to be. It will be back, I am sure of that.

"It reached a peak there for a while. I think it has calmed down a little bit. I think the personalities on their team aren't quite as outgoing as they used to be and we don't have as many kids that you used to hate like we used to have so it has been toned down a bit on both sides.

"The guys in the band are my favorite. They start on you as soon as you get off the bus and they don't stop. If you beat them, they go 'good job Coach, that was great.' For the two hours that you are there, it is pretty good, you have to admire some of them. They are good and they are right next to you. In that sense, it's like a lot of other places. It is not the kids you worry about, it is the adults that are the goofiest. The kids are fine, they are a lot of fun and they enjoy poking at you. There always seems to be a certain edge, I think it comes with the territory. If you like in New Jersey and you get that reputation that you are a little bit of a tough guy. I think a lot of those kids probably fancy themselves as that. How many times can you get asked 'what exit are you from?' before you want to punch somebody. I tell that to (UConn associate head coach and Rutgers graduate) Chris Dailey all the time, you are the only state where you don't have towns you just have exits."

Just a reminder to those who do not have access to CPTV, this game will not be available on hoop streams.

Here is what CPTV had to say about the situation.

Since the game is being played in Piscataway, New Jersey, Rutgers as the home team controls the TV and streaming rights for their women’s basketball games which are available for local production. While CPTV was granted permission to broadcast the game, the company which holds the rights to this game has decided not to permit CPTV to stream the game on its Hoop Streams service. Representatives from the statewide public television network fervently appealed the decision, but to no avail.

“We are very disappointed by this turn of events,” commented Harriet Unger, Executive Producer of UConn Women’s Basketball for CPTV. “It has always been CPTV’s goal to broadcast and stream every UConn women’s basketball game that is made available to us. Unfortunately, this is a game to which we have not been given full access.”

Wednesday's game will start at 7:30 p.m.