Stefanie Dolson figured to be a tough matchup for undersized Georgetown and 24 points later, those predictions ended up being true.

Dolson had 10 points during a 24-8 first-half run and helped pick up the slack when Maya Moore scored a season-low six points in a hard-earned win over Georgetown in Sunday's Big East tournament quarterfinals.

Dolson was 8 of 12 from the field and 8 of 10 from the free throw line as she broke Diana Taurasi's UConn freshman scoring record in the Big East tournament. Taurasi had 22 points in the 2001 quarterfinals against Boston College.

"It was a tough game, they (Georgetown) came out really aggressive," Dolson said. "We just had to fight back which I think we did. We played really well in the first half. In the second, we didn't have the best half of our lives but it feels good to know I can play like this at the level of this kind of game.

"A game like this teaches you how to be 10 times more aggressive than I was before. In a game like this, when they came out pressuring you the whole 40 minutes I think I played as tough as I could. A game like this going into the (NCAA) tournament is a great experience because I will know how to be aggressive."

The victory was UConn's 30th of the season, marking the sixth straight season the Huskies won at least 30 games. It was the 11th time in the last 12 seasons and 16th time overall the the Huskies won 30 games.

"I think the standard is winning the national championship," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "If we don't win the national championship, I don't think anybody's going to have a parade and say 'we won 30 games so it was a great year.' I don't think we put the emphasis any more on how many games we win, we just want to make sure we keep our focus on the biggest prize. Right now it is the Big East tournament. After that it is the NCAA tournament. I'd settle for 20 wins if we could be in the Final Four all of those years. It is not easy to win 30 games and the fact that we've done it so many times in the last 20 years, I think one of the things I am most happy about with our program is we look the same and act the same, having the same results every year. Not a lot of programs can say that."

Rutgers, which is the last Big East team to beat UConn and last to top the Huskies in the Big East tournament accomplishing the first feat in 2008 and stunning UConn in the 2007 Big East final. That was also the last time the Huskies lost a game on one of its home courts.

Coming off a game against a physical Georgetown team, an equally fiesty Rutgers squad could pose a challenge.

"This is a physical league," Auriemma said. "Teams in our league, especially the top six or seven, are very physical. There is no getting away from it. It is the bracket we are in, we are going to have to get out there tomorrow and be smart about it. We are going to have to handle their size. I thought we did a pretty good job down at their place once we got into a rhythm and we'll have manage it better. Certainly we will have to play better in the second half."