Time will tell how the UConn coaching staff does in adding post players in the next recruiting class but the 2017-18 Huskies will have some size up front thanks to another transfer joining the program.

Batouly Camara, a former Blair Academy star who spent her freshman season at Kentucky, will be joining former Duke star Azura' Stevens as transfers joining the Huskies since the end of the season.

Camara is a versatile 6-foot-2 forward from New York who averaged a double-double as a senior. In her three seasons at Blair, she led the Buccaneers to a 62-8 record and three consecutive Mid-Atlantic Prep league titles.

Here's a video I shot when Camara took part in the USA Basketball U-18 national team trials back in 2014.

Camara averaged 5.1 points and 4.3 rebounds in 18.3 minutes per game as a freshman at Kentucky.

She had a career-high 11 rebounds against UNC-Asheville in the first round of the NCAA tournament. In a loss at South Carolina Camara had a career-high 14 points to go with nine rebounds, two assists and a blocked shot in 25 minutes before fouling out. She also had eight points, nine rebounds and two blocked shots in an overtime win against Tennessee.

Camara previously announced that she would be transferring out of Kentucky, one of six players to transfer, another was dismissed and multiple players who have committed to play for the Wildcats have backed out of those pledges.

This will mark the first time UConn has three transfers on its roster as Camara and Stevens joins Natalie Butler, who is set for her second season on the court at UConn after transferring from Georgetown.

On the 2004-05 season UConn's roster featured junior-college transfer Rashidit Sadiq and Brittany Hunter, who played at Duke as a freshman. Hunter had to sit out that season and by the time she played in a game with the Huskies, Sadiq was no longer a part of the program. Rita Williams also went the junior-college route, spending her freshman season at Mitchell Community College and teamed with former University of Arizona product Sarah Northway for two seasons. However, Mitchell was part of UConn's plans coming out of high school so including her in a list of transfers is kind of hard to do even though she officially would be included as a transfer.

Both Camara and Stevens would have to sit out the upcoming season. Stevens will have two years of eligibility remaining while Camara would have three.

UConn has 13 scholarship players for the upcoming season and with only Saniya Chong and Tierney Lawlor leaving at season's end. UConn has two commitments (Andra Espinoza-Hunter and Lexi Gordon) in the next class so there are two remaining scholarships in the Class of 2017.

The Hartford Courant was the first to report that Camara was likely to land at UConn.

NURSE TO MISS EARLY PORTION OF CANADA'S OLYMPIC PREPARATIONS
The Canadian women's national team is currently in Edmonton for the first stage of its Olympic preparations before leaving to play five international friendlies in Spain and France. However, UConn rising junior guard Kia Nurse is not currently with the team and according to a team spokesperson, neither Nurse nor any of the WNBA players in the player pool will be taking part in the European tour.

There's no cause for concern regarding Nurse as she is back at UConn to what was termed "school commitments" but is expected to join the team this summer. The move makes sense as Nurse looked like she was exhausted by the end of what was a hectic summer for her and the Canadian program which won the Pan Am Games and FIBA Americas title. As the team's leading scorer in both events, Nurse will obviously be a member of the squad and by remaining in Connecticut, she won't be overworked this summer. Canada still has two more training camps, a three-game set of exhibitions against China as well as more international friendlies being held in the U.S. and perhaps in Connecticut shortly before the team leaves for the Olympics.

FORMER HUSKIES MAKING NEWS
A couple of items to report regarding former UConn stars.

First, Tamika Williams was hired at Penn State after leaving her job as an assistant coach at Kentucky. Also, Jamelle Elliott will serve as an advanced scout for the U.S. team at the Olympics.

Cincinnati, where Elliott serves as the head women's basketball coach, announced the news earlier today. Ironically, she will join her former teammate and classmate in the court coach/advance scout as Jen Rizzotti will also handle those chores.

What's interesting with Williams' appointment is that she coached Camara in her final season at Kentucky and now one of the players she will get to coach at Penn State is UConn transfer De'Janae Boykin.

Also, former UConn star Carla Berube and former UConn assistant coach Tonya Cardoza were named court coaches at the upcoming U-17 and U-18 national team trials.

The U-17 trials run from Thursday-Monday with the U-18s running from Saturday-Monday.

UConn Class of 2017 commits Andra Espinoza-Hunter and Lexi Gordon are among 150 players competing for 12 spots on the U.S. taking part in the FIBA U-17 World Championships while 30 players including UConn incoming freshman Crystal Dangerfield and Class of 2017 recruiting target Megan Walker are taking part in the U18 camp. Walker is part of the U.S. squad playing in the FIBA Women's 3x3 U18 World Championships from June 1-5 in Kazakhstan so the four players on that squad will be leaving on Sunday and only take part in Saturday's sessions.

Six former or current UConn stars were among those taking part in the U.S. national team training camp earlier this week.  But Maya Moore, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Stefanie Dolson and Breanna Stewart were not the only members of UConn royalty in attendance.

Jen Rizzotti was among those appointed to be court coaches by USA Basketball. Rizzotti has a long relationship with USA Basketball as a player and a coach.

Rizzotti was the head coach of the gold-medal winning teams at the 2010 FIBA Americas U18 and 2011 FIBA U19 World Championships and an assistant in 2006 when the U.S. won the FIBA Americas 18 championship. At the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women, Rizzotti was asked to serve as an advance scout for the U.S. team and that is something she said she would be doing at the Olympics later this year as well.

"That has been dictated to Chris Dailey and I that we will be the scouts again for the Olympics and the staff so whatever (Olympic assistant coaches) Cheryl (Reeve), Dawn (Staley) and Doug (Bruno) need in terms of a live scout, a film breakdown or stats, that will kind of be my role."

Rizzotti's experiences with USA Basketball date back to when she was an All-American point guard at UConn. She tried out for the 1996 Olympic team and was a member of the Jones Cup team in 1996. She doesn't need to be asked twice if the folks at USA Basketball ask her to be involved with one of their teams.

"Immensely I enjoy it and the biggest reason is the people," Rizzotti said. "(USA Basketball Womens' National Team Director) Carol Callan is one of my favorite people in the entire world. She is great at what she does, she is fun to be around, she is smart, she is funny and she really understands what it takes to make a special occasion. She has been a part of all of my experiences, I have gotten to coach with great coaches, I have gotten to coach great players. The staff at USA Basketball is obviously phenomenal. I think we say this all the time that the teams that you are on and the experiences that you have are usually never about the places you go or the wins or losses, it is about the people you surround yourself with and they do a phenomenal job of getting great people around so I have really enjoyed myself every time I have done it."

Rizzotti received a tour of the Werth Family Basketball Champions Center shortly after it opened. But being in there for the training camp when her name was among those hanging with the other former national players of the year made for a bit of a surreal scene for her.

"It is a little bit humbling and you just feel proud of have been a part of it and that your name is up there with all the great players," Rizzotti said, "You see the precedent we set from '95 on and you are happy for the future, the legacy, what the kids have to appreciate now and just hope they are going to feel the same way in 10 years when they come back."

Rizzotti wasn't the only player who is or was a point guard at UConn checking out the festivities. Current UConn point guard Moriah Jefferson was a regular viewer of the practices, sitting in the far corner for all three days.

Rizzotti might have a deeper appreciation of what Jefferson means to this UConn team more than most people since she filled a similar role on the 1995 national championship team.

"She actually tried out for the 19-and-under team I coached maybe as a sophomore or junior. Breanna was the youngest on that team and (Jefferson) didn't make that team," Rizzotti said. "I remember watching her in tryouts and Geno asking about how she is doing and I remember saying that she is very fast and skilled but she doesn't really know how to control a team yet, she doesn't know how to set the offense, she doesn't know how to organize that group and provide that leadership that a team full of all-stars needs.  To watch her now and not just her senior year but since her sophomore year, she is one of the best players at the country and one of the best players to play that position here, it has been amazing. She put a lot of effort not just into the physical piece of the game but much more into the mental side of the game. It is a lot of fun to watch her play. She doesn't have a gear lower than fifth, she doesn't take possessions off and is able to play at a high level for the entire game if she needs to. That comes from practice, you don't get that because you want to but because you do it every day."

Speaking about point guards, another one who had a strong showing at the camp was UConn graduate assistant Jasmine Lister who not only organized the team of male practice players as she does with the Huskies but had the added benefit of being able to serve as the point guard of the group.

On Monday she was hitting 3-pointers, dishing off assists, getting to loose balls. When Lister, a former Vanderbilt star, was pressed into duty with the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks due to a string of injuries during the summer, she played against the Connecticut Sun at Mohegan Sun Arena. I remember writing then that if you had to pick out the current college graduate assistant with no previous WNBA experience with the exception of the 2014 training camp with the Seattle Storm, it would have been impossible to say Lister was that player. I had the same feeling watching the U.S. practices as Lister looked very much like she belonged. As she left the facility on Monday, USA Basketball CEO/Executive Director Jim Tooley made a point of telling Lister how well she played. Her current boss was also impressed.

"She was Bob Cousy, player/coach," UConn and U.S. head coach Geno Auriemma said. "She had those guys exactly where we needed them and they played in a way that we need them to play. Jas coaches them, she ran the offense, she is going to be a heck of a coach down the road."

As the two youngest players on the Canadian national team, this has been a summer to remember for UCLA junior Nirra Fields and UConn freshman Kia Nurse.

After competing in the upcoming FIBA World Championship for Women, the two will go their separate ways before meeting up again on Dec. 21 at Mohegan Sun Arena when the Bruins and Huskies meet in the Hall of Fame Women's Challenge.

I caught up with Fields (who unfortunately injured her shoulder and was unable to play in Monday's exhibition game between the U.S. and Canada) after Sunday's scrimmage between the two teams and she made it clear that the UCLA players are fired up about getting to square off with the two-time defending national champions.

"I am so excited for that game," said Fields, who was UCLA"s second-leading scorer last season. "It is probably one of the games that we are all circling on our calendar. It is really going to battle test us, we are a really young team and we are rebuilding. I am very excited.

"Our coach was really battling for us. She knew we were going to have a very talented team and wanted us to play the best teams in the country. She was like 'you guys better be prepared and work hard this season because we are really going to have a tough game this year.' I kind of anticipated UConn because that is the best team right now in the entire college women's game so I was really excited about that and wanted to let everyone else know that we need to work hard because everything we do now is going to affect us when we play that game."

As for Nurse, Fields loves the fiery competitiveness she brings to the floor.

"I like her energy," Fields said. "She is an energy giver and her young spirit always brings everyone up and having her in the mix just makes everyone energetic."

Fields believes her experience with the Canadian squad will help her in so many ways when she returns to college.

"It is just like seeing the game at another perspective," Fields said. "Just playing with more older players, they read the game and getting that perspective is going to help my game so much more when  I go back to UCLA."

CALLAN THRILLED TO HAVE RIZZOTTI ON BOARD
While time will tell how many UConn products will be part of the U.S. team playing in the World Championships, U.S. head coach Geno Auriemma knows he will have one of his former players along for the ride as Jen Rizzotti.

Rizzotti, the point guard on Auriemma's first national championship team at UCLA, will serve as an advance scout for the U.S. team.

Carol Callan, the U.S. women's national team director, is excited to have Rizzotti, who is no stranger to the folks at USA Basketball, be a part of the national team staff.

"Jen is, feisty isn't even the right word, she is energetic, passionate and the way she was as a player translates to the way she is as a coach," Callan said. "It is nice for Geno to have somebody who understands what he does. Even though Jen is at Hartford she played for him, she understands and she is somebody that the players can go to 'what do we do here?' and  she is not shy about going onto the floor and doing those things as well."

Last year Guilford's Amber Bepko was dealt a cruel hand.

The long-anticipated first home game against national powerhouse UConn was fast approaching when the former Mercy High star turned her ankle in practice. Bepko could only sit and watch as the UConn team which would eventually win the national title easily dispatched her Hartford team.

Bepko, now a junior, was healthy and in the starting lineup when UConn and Hartford played on Saturday afternoon's season opener at the XL Center.

"I wasn't able to play in last year's game and playing them this year there was a lot of emotion, a lot of excitement," said Bepko after scoring three points in a 89-34 loss to UConn. "It is always good to play against the No. 1 team in the country and the national champions so I was very excited."

Bepko is the only one of Hartford's top five scorers returning from a 21-12 team. Heavy graduation losses, injuries and an attempt to match up with the mighty Huskies led to Jen Rizzotti starting three freshmen against UConn.

"You kind of feel for them," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "They are already kind of undermanned and then to have kids injured but I always like the way she (Bepko) plays, She is a tough kid and you watch those kids, they started three freshman and they looked like Jen's team, they are not intimidated, we just have too much talent to see how good those Hartford kids are, they are probably a lot better than they showed."

Bepko, who was named a team captain as a junior, is being called upon to contribute in a variety of areas on a young Hartford team that has designs on making a run at an America East title.

"Her being an upperclassman is huge, playing teams that win championships is big," Hartford assistant coach Brian Mik said. "It is now her time to pick up her role, she is a captain now and she is going to be a leader and it is time to shine.

"I think defensively she has picked it up a lot. She is very tenacious and sometimes she is a little bit over the edge but the good teams and the teams that scout us know they are going to put their best defender on her and she has to be able to react by that and do all the little things, rebound, defend and stuff like that."

Bepko is closing in on Hartford's top 10 lists in career 3-pointers and steals but she is trying to spread her wings now that she has two seasons under her belt.

"I need to step up a lot more, I need to take control," Bepko said. "I need to be able be a leader, calm them down when I need to. Because we are such a young team now I need to be the one who needs to be the one who steps in and is talking and not the the one being talked to.

"We are still learning but I think by the time conference (play) comes around we are going to be a very strong team and go really far."

REUNION TIME
Rizzotti didn't need to look at game tape to break down the strengths of UConn's best players.

She coached Stefanie Dolson, Bria Hartley, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Morgan Tuck during her two-year stint as a head coach on U.S. junior national teams in 2010 and 2011 and last month was a court coach at the U.S. national team training camp which included Dolson, Stewart and Mosqueda-Lewis.

"Let's just keep in mind who they got coached by first," Rizzotti said with a laugh. "They just play hard and that is all you can say. There is not one way you can defend them because you take one thing away and they are great."

Rizzotti said she enjoyed her time working with all the players, including the current UConn stars. The feeling is mutual.

"I really enjoyed her when we went to Chile sand Las Vegas," Stewart said. "She is an intense coach and she wants to get the best out of you and bottom line she wants to win."

When Stefanie Dolson's first 3-point attempt of the season was dead, solid, perfect it was no surprise to her teammates or her coaches. When her second on also was on target, UConn opponents must have been just thrilled at another aspect of the UConn offensive juggernaut to contend with.

"She does it in practice every day so I am not surprised by it," said UConn sophomore point guard Moriah Jefferson said. "She has been doing it in practice every day."

Dolson came to UConn with the ability to consistently hit the 15-foot jumper but has been working on gradually increasing her range. After not making a 3-pointer in her first two seasons Dolson made eight during her junior season including three against Wake Forest.

"I have shooting great in practice so I figured why not try it in the game," Dolson said.

The 6-foot-5 Dolson not only made the two 3's but both were assisted by the 6-foot-4 Breanna Stewart. Stewart also has 3-point range as she hit 28 treys as a freshman.

"It changes a lot because when they know we can shoot they have to come out and help which opens up room for the other players to post up," Dolson said. "If we couldn't shoot it, they would just sag off so it just helps keep the floor spaced out and make sure we can points in the paint."

Stewart did not make a 3-pointer in the season opener or in either of the exhibition games but it is a shot she is also comfortable taking.

"Both of us can shoot the 3 and if you leave it open we are going to shoot the 3 and we are going to make it, Stewart said. "It makes it really fun because you are not just isolated in one area, you are not just on the block from the perimeter and you are able to move around, when you can move all five people all around the court, it is hard to guard."

Neither UConn coach Geno Auriemma nor Hartford's Jen Rizzotti, who coached Dolson on the U.S. U-18 team in 2010 and U-19 squad in 2011, were surprised to see Dolson launching up shots from beyond the 3-point line.

"That is something that has been kind of in the works from last year until the present," Auriemma said. "She has been more and more comfortable shooting the ball every day. It doesn't surprise me at all that 1) that she shoots it and 2) that is goes in. That is something that she has spent a lot of time working on it and I am glad she had a chance to shoot them today."

Rizzotti said Dolson's 3-point range was mentioned in the pre-game scouting report but just not very high up on the Hawks' defensive "to-do" list.

"We told them that Stefanie would shoot 3's, we did but don't fly out at her because it is not what she wants to do," Rizzotti said. "Then she makes her first 3 like it is nothing. I think what is impressive about Stefanie and Breanna is how much better they have gotten every year, they are not just content to be as good as they were, they add something to their game every year. They can both play on the perimeter, they can both best you on the blocks, they have size and they are smart."

LAWLOR'S BACK TO BACK BASKETS A HIGHLIGHT

UConn made six 3-pointers against Hartford. Dolson and Mosqueda-Lewis had two each while Moriah Jefferson made her only 3-point attempt. But in the eyes of Dolson it was walk-on Tierney Lawlor's 3-pointer which was the highlight of the game.

"We love T," Dolson said. "She is great. First the fact that Polly (fellow walk-on Briana Pulido) had a nice drive and then dished her that 3 was just great, it was a great example of how hard they have been working in practice. We all know there are things that they don't know so when they go out there, work hard, play hard and give great effort you saw how excited everybody got."

Even a week and a half after  Jen Rizzotti's induction into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, the Hartford women's basketball coach and former UConn All-American guard is still trying to grasp the enormity of it all.

Rizzotti, the starting point guard on UConn's first national championship team, was shocked when she got the  call when she was informed that she would become the second UConn player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

"It was phenomenal, we had a great time and it was a weekend I could spend with my family reflect on my playing career and really just relax," Rizzotti said after playing her round at the Travelers Celebrity Pro-Am on Wednesday. "Even being in Tennessee I still had a good time and it was nice to be able to thank the people who have been such a big influence in my life

"I was really shocked, It wasn't something I was expecting, it wasn't like I was counting down to the year where I would be eligible or anything. It was so out of the blue and I think I was shocked at first, then a little overwhelmed and then really excited for it.

"They did a phenomenal job of making us feel special, keeping it relaxed and not ever getting to the point where we felt overwhelmed so they did a great job of making all of us feel unique and special."

Rizzotti 's acceptance speech drew plenty of laughs when she admitted she was having a great time even though she was in Knoxville, Tennessee. She also spent much of it thanking UConn coach Geno Auriemma, who was at the induction ceremony.

""Obviously he has meant so much to me in my career and I talked a lot about him in my speech because everything I have done since my decision to go to UConn has impacted my life in so many great ways," Rizzotti said.

Rizzotti joined Rebecca Lobo as the former Huskies to be inducted. More UConn stars will be inducted in the coming years.

"It won't be long until there is another string of them," Rizzotti said. "Obviously some of them have to start retiring but there are so many UConn players that came after that 1995 team that have impacted the game in so many ways so it will be fun over the years to watch and see more UConn players go in.

"I wouldn't say I ever forget it but it is not something that is on the forefront of my mind anymore. Most importantly when I think back to those days, I know the winning was exciting and we reminisce about our experiences, we reminisce about the times that he had off the court, the trips that we went on and when I have the chance to reconnect not just with Rebecca but with Kara (Wolters), Carla (Berube), Colleen (Healy) and Missy (Rose) because of this kind of event it kind of makes it worth it."

Ironically, Rizzotti's Hawks will open the 2013-14 season by playing at UConn on Nov. 9.

"I am excited," Rizzotti said. "We have some turnover, sometimes that is good and sometimes that is tough and in this case it will be a good thing to have a clean slate and see what we can build on. We will be a young team but I think we will be a team that will peak at the right time. The last couple of years we have played really well early in the season and then tapered off. I think this team might hit its bumps early in the season but I see this team peaking hopefully at the end of February and into March right when you want to."

Hartford will play in Miami's tournament, hosts Vanderbilt and opens up home and home series with Boston College and Penn State by playing both of them on the road. Then there is the showdown with UConn.

"We play Nov. 9. I will call it the preseason scrimmage and we will start the following week when we go to Loyola," Rizzotti said with a laugh.

Rizzotti played in the Pro-Am with UConn AD Warde Manuel and men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie while the pro was Jonas Blixt.

"To be able to play with the pro is exciting because I am just in awe of what they can do and as competitive of a person that I am, I would love to hit the ball down the middle of the fairway every time," Rizzotti said. "We had a really friendly pro today in Jonas Blixt who I will be rooting for over the weekend and to have a chance to play with Warde and Kevin was a lot of fun, they are both really good golfers and just easy to be around."

So how did she play?

"Up and down, typical of somebody who plays five or six times a year. I had a stretch of four or five pars and then a bunch of triple bogeys so (she finished) right around my handicap."

Even before the season began the injury bug was proving to have quite the appetite in the camp of the Connecticut Sun as veteran forward Asjha Jones made the decision to take the entire 2013 season off to recover from a variety of ailments and underrated wing Danielle McCray would also be sidelined for the entire season due to an injury she suffered playing overseas. However, that was just the tip of the iceberg.

If there was one image from last night's Sun/Washington Mystics game it was seeing Renee Montgomery, Kara Lawson and Tan White all in street clothes unable to play. Predictably, down the stretch the Sun struggled offensively without three of its best perimeter offensive players.

If you include Jones, McCray and Jessica Moore (who was not re-signed and promptly was picked up by Washington) the Sun played without players who accounted for 52 percent of the team's offense during the 2012 season and made 172 of the team's 199 3-pointers.

The good news is that Lawson's injury is considered to be day by day and there is a chance she will be back when the Sun return to action on Wednesday with a game at Indiana. However, Montgomery and White likely won't be back until next month.

Montgomery suffered a high ankle sprain during a gruesome-looking tumble to court late in a loss to Chicago while White broke the middle finger on her right hand during practice earlier this week. Both are expected to miss at least three weeks.

Montgomery has not watched replays of the injury nor is she planning to.

"I got hit on the screen and I went down and it was bad," Montgomery said before Friday's loss to the Mystics. "When he (Sun trainer Jeremy Norman) came out, I didn't know what was hurt and I just said 'my leg' but it was a bad fall. I never missed a game in junior high, high school, college or pros.. This is the first time I had to miss a game before." 

Montgomery realizes that the way that her leg bent backwards on the fall that she could have easily found herself on the sidelines for a much longer period than just three or four weeks.

"I feel blessed," Montgomery said. "I didn't go back and look at it but when it happened I knew it was bad. I could have been out the whole season the way the fall happened so I know I am blessed."

Right now Montgomery needs to stay off the injured ankle as much as possible. During games she will wear a walking boot but the rest of the time she will get around with the help of crutches.

White will be able to start doing cardio workouts in a couple of days. She is wearing a splint to protect her entire hand.

White said she was defending rookie Kelly Faris in practice and when Faris drove by, she swiped at the ball as she had done countless times during practices and games in her professional career. She missed the ball and made contact with Faris' arm. At first White thought she might have just jammed the finger but further examination the following day revealed that she had broken the finger. With her injury coming so soon after Montgomery went down left the Sun rather thin in perimeter options coming off the bench.

"It can happen on any team," White said. "It is not something that we planned to do intentionally but if you are playing the game these kinds of injuries come all the time. It is a bad situation to have both of us being out at the same time. It is what it is, mine is a short injury and hopefully I will recover and be back quickly.

"This is opportunity for everybody to step up because we need everybody to do a little extra and from here on until we get back and it is a great opportunity for these young players."

Faris is one of the young players who has impressed White especially with the way she played defensively against another former UConn star (Maya Moore) in the Sun's recent loss to Minnesota.

"She has responded well," White said. "At training camp she didn't get to play that much because she was injured but just to play such a tough team in Minnesota, she came out and showed defensively that she can be a stopper. I am excited to continue see her grow and have her put in a position where she can find a role here."

OPENING NIGHT FUNDRAISER A SUCCESS

The Connecticut Sun donated ticket sales from the season-opening win against New York to the American Red Cross to aid those impacted by the deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma.

The Sun doesn't want to make it look like they were engaging in a publicity stunt so there will be no ceremony with a check being presented to officials from the Red Cross but I was told last night that approximately $16,000 was raised.

MONTGOMERY THRILLED FOR FORMER HUSKY

Montgomery didn't cross paths with fellow former UConn point guard Jen Rizzotti that much during her time with the Huskies but she still admitted to feeling a sense of pride that Rizzotti is becoming the second former UConn player to be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame later today.

"I don't know if it is the culture that UConn has created but even if you haven't had much contact with somebody who is a UConn alum you still have this mutual understanding of friendship and camaraderie so I am happy for her and proud she is going into the Hall of Fame." 

Late in Wednesday's win over Oakland I glanced at the live stats on my computer screen and was astonished by the number of rebounds Breanna Stewart was piling up. Fast forward to Saturday and I had the same reaction when looking at how many points the UConn freshman phenom had.

I guess a sign of her greatness is that Stewart can make it look pretty easy when she is on a roll as she was in the two games this week.

The final numbers for Stewart were 48 points, 20 rebounds, four steals and two blocks in 54 minutes. Stewart was 19 of 30 from the field including 3 of 8 from 3-point range and 7 of 8 from the free-throw line.

The 27 points against Hartford gave her 169 through her first 10 games which broke the previous program record of 165 set by Maya Moore.



"In high school I could get any shot I like, here obviously defenses are better and you really have to work for your shot," Stewart said. "I have to keep working for my shot whether it is setting a screen to get  somebody else open and getting somebody else open. I think it's just staying within the offense and shooting when I am open."

Comparing the numbers Moore and Stewart put up through the first 10 games of their career shows that Moore has attempted more shots while Stewart has done a better job of getting to the free-throw line. Moore also scored her 165 points in 204 minutes while Stewart has played 28 more minutes through the first 10 games.

Hartford coach Jen Rizzotti coach Stewart on the U.S. U-19 team back in 2011 and she had an insightful take on Stewart's play early on in her career.

"She is just a natural at everything," Rizzotti said. "Even when I saw her play years ago before I coached her and (said) 'she really can't do that, she really can't do that' but it is like every weakness she has she finds a way to erase it within a year. She is going left today, she is pulling up, she is finishing around the basket. She is a very dynamic offensive player. We don't really have the kind of athlete that can make her life difficult. You could see in some of the physical games against Penn State and Maryland how she struggled, teams really bodied her up. She can just pick you apart in every way and it doesn't hurt her that she has players around her banging 3's left and right so you can't really double her, you can't pay too much attention to her."

UConn coach Geno Auriemma just shrugged his shoulders when addressing Stewart's impressive offensive start to her career.


"I don't have any thoughts on it," Auriemma said. "She doesn't know how she scores. She takes a lot of shots and she makes a lot of them. Guys who shoot a lot and make a lot score a lot of points. Let me guess, she broke Maya's record. Another guy who took a lot of shots. That is what scorers do, they go into games and they figure out how to score points. It was the same thing I said about Maya when she a freshman. If Breanna Stewart ever learns how to play basketball and where her shots are coming from, when and how she is going to be really, really good."

Another stat of note from the game is that UConn won its last two games by 72 and 57 points. I was curious what was the last time the Huskies won back to back games by more than 129 points. Assuming my math is correct, it's been a while. Back in February of 2001 the Huskies beat West Virginia by 63 points (97-34) and three days later crushed St. John's 118-44 meaning they won the two games by a total of 137 points.

Of course things figure to be different when UConn plays at No. 1 Stanford in its next game on Saturday.

"I am looking forward to that game," Stewart said. "I've heard Stanford is a pretty hostile environment and it is going to be pretty live. I am looking forward to experiencing the whole thing and hopefully playing a good game."

Almost like clockwork you could head to Hartford in December to check out the UConn women's basketball team face a Hartford team coached by former UConn great Jen Rizzotti play.

After six straight seasons of the matchups, Rizzotti needed a change. She wanted to offer slots to teams from the power conferences to come to Chase Family Arena in return for a road game.

When Rizzotti approach her mentor, Geno Auriemma, about starting the series at Hartford's on-campus facility, Auriemma thought it would be a nice change of pace. So now the teams will play tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Chase Family Arena.

"I think it is great for our seniors," Rizzotti said. "They have played UConn a few times in their careers but never at home. Going into the (XL) Center and playing in front of 12,000 people is exciting the first time or two but it gets kind of old. Now they have a chance to play in our own arena with a comfort level and in front of our fans, we’ve had people who have been season ticket holders since they’ve gotten here and this game is for them. They come to every game whether we blow people out or we lose and they support our team. Now they get a chance to have a front-row seat for UConn and they can’t get that when they go to UConn.

"It is a nice opportunity to celebrate the success of our program, the atmosphere we already have here and to have people who have a chance to come into our gym and see what we are all about. It is a great place to watch a game, it is going to be fun and electric and the fans are going to be on top of you. For our kids I think it will be a wonderful experience and for our fans, it is kind of a reward for them."

Auriemma chuckled when asked about the atmosphere his team will face inside a building with a seating capacity of 4,017.

"(UConn assistant coach) Shea (Ralph) and I were talking and it is going to be like when we went to Holy Cross back in 2000, the place was sold out and the students were right on top of you," Auriemma said. "It does bring back memories to them of being in a big, huge game in a state tournament. It is not an arena, it is not a 16,000 or 12,000 so I think the kids are going to love it. I think they are going to have a great team, the fans are going to love it, Jen’s kids are going to love it. I am actually kind of excited about it."

If Auriemma were asked to list his favorite UConn players of all time, it likely would not take long for him to rattle off Rizzotti’s name.

She was the starting point guard on UConn’s first national championship team and as fiery of a competitor as Auriemma has ever coached. His feelings as so strong that he is putting off a trip to Florence, Italy so he can attend Rizzotti’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Knoxville, Tenn.

"There was a four-year period or at least three where the average around the country yeah they got to know Rebecca Lobo but our program was kind of defined by the little kid in the pony tail that was all over the place," Auriemma said. "It is hard for a 6-5 player to inspire everybody because you’ll say ‘well, I’ll never get to be 6-5.’ But when you see Jennifer out there running around and she is 5-5, she is national player of the year as a senior and she averaged 11 points a game I think every little girl in Connecticut and across the country said ‘yeah, I can do that.’ Just for that alone she should be in the Hall of Fame much less for what her accomplishments were."

Jen Rizzotti was not about to take any credit for the success that Stefanie Dolson, Bria Hartley, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck are experiencing at UConn.

However, they all believe their time playing for the former UConn All-American guard on the U.S. junior natinal teams was an invaluable precursor to facing a demanding taskmaster like Geno Auriemma at UConn.

Look for some pleasantries to be exchanged when the Huskies meet up with Rizzotti, whose Hartford Hawks host second-ranked UConn tomorrow at 1 p.m.

"I am excited to play her (team), I am excited to see her," Dolson said.

Dolson and Hartley played on the U-18 team back in 2010 which won the FIBA Americas U18 title and then the U-19 the following year when they were joined by Mosqueda-Lewis, Stewart and Tuck on the FIBA U19 World Championship squad.


"It is going to be nice playing her again," Hartley said. "I think she helped me a lot. She was tough on me from the beginning my freshman year when I came here and then the next year. She expected a lot out of me and it was the same when I came here. It challenged me in different ways."

Rizzotti is looking forward to seeing the five tomorrow (although Tuck's knee injury is expected to sideline her for the second straight game).

"I don't know if I have anything to do with their emergence but it is kind of fun to think I was there at the beginning and to see their growth, even the difference between Stefanie and Bria from the year prior and the year after when I had them after a year at UConn, it was great to see their maturity and the way they were as leaders," Rizzotti said. "Even as young players they were older on our team so they really stepped up and I love their personalities, they are good kids. Breanna Stewart is one of the nicest kids, you would never know that she gets the attention that she does. Morgan Tuck, she was probably the easiest of any of them to coach. She was like a hard worker, a great attitude. It will be fun. 

"Once the game starts I don't really think about my opponent but I am always cheering for them. They are great because of what is inside of them. They go to UConn because they want to be even better and that is what drives them. It is like a present for me to be able to coach kids who are already so driven. I don't know if I can say I had anything to do with their success but I am happy to be a part of their past and it will be nice to see them on Saturday." 

Jen Rizzotti is certainly no stranger to UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma since the Hall of Famer to be played for Auriemma for four glorious seasons and was the point guard on UConn's first national championship team. But the veteran University of Hartford coach also knows a thing or two about many of the UConn players.

Rizzotti coached Stefanie Dolson and Bria Hartley on the U.S. U-18 squad back in 2010. The following year she was the head coach of the U.S. U-19 national team which featured not only Dolson and Hartley but also Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck.


“I don't know if I have anything to do with their emergence but it is kind of fun to think I was there at the beginning and to see their growth, even the difference between Stefanie and Bria from the year prior and the year (with the U-18 national team in 2010) after when I had them after a year at UConn, it was great to see their maturity and the way they were as leaders,” Rizzotti said. “Even as young players they were older on our team so they really stepped up and I love their personalities, they are good kids. Breanna Stewart is one of the nicest kids; you would never know that she gets the attention that she does. Morgan Tuck, she was probably the easiest of any of them to coach. She was like a hard worker, a great attitude.

“It will be fun. Once the game starts I don't really think about my opponent but I am always cheering for them. They are great because of what is inside of them. They go to UConn because they want to be even better and that is what drives them. It is like a present for me to be able to coach kids who are already so driven. I don't know if I can say I had anything to do with their success but I am happy to be a part of their past and it will be nice to see them on Saturday “

Saturday will be eighth time Rizzotti will be playing the school where she was an All-American and national player of the year but the first one at the friendly confines of the Chase Family Arena.

“I think it is great for our seniors,” Rizzotti said. “They have played UConn a few times in their careers but never at home. Going into the (XL) Center and playing in front of 12,000 people is exciting the first time or two but it gets kind of old. Now they have a chance to play in our own arena with a comfort level and in front of our fans, we've had people who have been season-ticket holders since they've gotten here and this game is for them. They come to every game whether we blow people out or we lose and they support our team. Now they get a chance to have a front-row seat for UConn and they can't get that when they go to UConn.

“It is a nice opportunity to celebrate the success of our program, the atmosphere we already have here and to have people who have a chance to come into our gym and see what we are all about. It is a great place to watch a game, it is going to be fun and electric and the fans are going to be on top of you. For our kids I think it will be a wonderful experience and for our fans, it is kind of a reward for them.”

Following the game there were a wide range of topics that UConn and U.S. national team coach Geno Auriemma addressed following a 99-67 exhibition victory over Brazil at the Verizon Center. Let's start with his reaction to former UConn guard Jen Rizzotti being named to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.

"One of the things I have always thought about Jen is when she ws in high school, she played the game in a way that people went to high school girls basketball games and that doesn't happen a lot and in small places like New Fairfield, Connecticut. When she came to UConn she played the game in such a way that everybody wanted to watch her play. "She's a 5-5, 5-6 girl in a ponytail who inspired an entire state to become women's basketball fans. What tells you all you need to know about Jen is her senior year she averaged 11 points a game and she was the national player of the year. Even now as a coach she represents all the things that are great about women's basketball. She has inspired more young people to play women's basketball than anybody I've ever been around."

Following the game President Barack Obama meet the U.S. team and Auriemma talked about what he had to say.

 "The President is a huge basketball fan, everybody knows that," Auriemma said. "He wanted to congratulate the players and wish them luck. He probably spent a lot more time then they wanted oo down there just being a regular guy. "He wanted to know about the team, where we were going, what the seeds are and who we are playing. He has a pretty good grip on what is going on in the Olympics. Some of the players had already met him. He treated all of them exactly the same, we knew some of them by their first name, some he recognized. One of the great things abou meeting the President, whether you votes for him or didn't vote for him whether he is a Republican, a Democrat or something else, when you are in the presence of the President, you are in the presence of the President. We had dinner with a bunch of generals and you get to shake hands with two four-star generals. It's not the same as no disrespect but it is not the same as being in Manchester, Connecticut and saying hi to one of the cops at Dunkin' Donuts."


Staying on the subject of meeting the President, former UConn star Diana Taurasi said "With the President we talked a little healthcare, tax breaks."

Lindsay Whalen, playing the role of the straight man in the tag-team press conference with Taurasi, was thrilled to meet President Obama for the first time.

"It was the first time I have ever met him so it was pretty cool," Whalen said. "What he said is represent the country well and make us proud so I know we will take it to heart and go to London with that mindset."

Jen Rizzotti, the point guard on UConn's first national championship team, is one of six players elected into the next class for the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Rizzotti will join her former UConn teammate Rebecca Lobo to become the second former Husky in the Hall of Fame. Rizzotti, currently the head coach at Hartford, played at UConn from 1992-96 and 1,540 points, 637 assists, and 349 steals. Rizzotti joins Annette Smith-Knight, Peggie Gillom-Granderson and Sue Wicks in the players category while Ohio State's Jim Foster (one of the people who gave UConn coach Geno Auriemma his shot in the coaching profession) and Texas A&M's Gary Blair will be inducted as coaching representatives. The Class of 2013 will be formally introduced at the 2012 State Farm Tip-Off Classic between Baylor and Kentucky on Nov. 13 in Waco, Tex. and inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on June 8 in Knoxville, Tenn

Not that's there is too much news for former UConn women's basketball stars to report on but Sue Bird isn't at the Verizon Center for the U.S/Brazil game because of a death in her family, Tina Chsrles was named the WNBA's Eastern Conference Player of the Week - again and word is Jen Rizzotti has been elected into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.

The United States team which won the U-19 World Championship for Women were named the 2011 team of the year by USA Basketball.

Not only was the team coached by former UConn great Jen Rizzotti but also four of the top five scorers either currently play for UConn or in the case of leading scorer Breanna Stewart, has signed a letter of intent with Connecticut.

Joining Stewart on the squad were UConn sophomores Stefanie Dolson and Bria Hartley, freshman Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and another UConn signee Morgan Tuck as well as UConn recruiting target Diamond DeShields.

The team certainly deserves recognition for winning the world title but if I had a vote (which I do not) I would have selected the U.S. 3x3 girls team that was forced to play in the semifinals with just two players when Rebecca Greenwell suffered a knee injury and UConn recruiting target Taya Reimer was already out with a sprained ankle. The team lost in the semifinals and in the bronze-medal game but received an honorary bronze medal for their efforts.

Also, USA Basketball will hold a press conference to announce its Olympic assistant coaches on Friday in Chicago. Hmm, UConn is playing at DePaul on Saturday and DePaul coach Doug Bruno has been an assistant with head coach Geno Auriemma during the run to the World Championship gold medal. Something tells me there will be a Bruno sighting at the press conference (especially since the DePaul official athletic site will be providing a live stream of the press conference). Barring any traveling issues, I'm planning to be at the press conference and will file a report when it becomes official.

I headed over to a forum featuring UConn coach Geno Auriemma, former UConn star and current Hartford women's basketball coach Jen Rizzotti and Trinity College men;s squash coach Paul Assaiante at the University of Hartford.

While I caught just the tail end of the hour-long event and listened to Auriemma's take on the state of college athletics and it was thought provoking to say the least, the purpose of my trip was to speak to Auriemma and Rizzotti about UConn signee Breanna Stewart since I will be heading to Springfield tomorrow to watch Stewart play in the HoopHall Classic.

I'm going to save some of the stuff for the story on her which will run in Saturday's edition of the Register, here are some of the highlights.

"I don't know if a high school game is going to do her justice because she rises to the occasion based on the competition," said Rizzotti, who coached Stewart on the U.S. U-19 squad over the summer. "The bigger game we played, the better she was. She is really, really competitive. She is far from her limit in terms of her potential. She has a lot of room to improve, she has the intangible things that you can't coach. You can't teach somebody to be competitive, hard working or willing to learn. You can teach them how to dribble and how to have a better jump shot, the things he will be able to do with her in basketball because she brings so much more to the table."

Stewart is the latest UConn commit to play in the HoopHall Classic and she will likely receive a similar reception from UConn fans that Tina Charles, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Elena Delle Donne (when she was still headed to play for the Huskies).

"Her being up her at a lot of games, I think she is pretty familiar with what it is all about. I think she will see another side of it," Auriemma said. "She will probably go up there and say 'I can't believe people from Massachusetts and people drive from Connecticut up to Massachusetts to watch me play. Then again, she is such a humble kid, so down to earth that she signed her letter of intent on the hood of a car so I don't think she is one of these kids who goes for all the fanfare."

Other item to come out of the interviews was that Bria Hartley will head to the wake for her AAU coach Robert "Apache" Paschall tomorrow.

"After we practice tomorrow, her dad is going to pick her up, they are going to go down and then they
are going to come down after the service and meet us down there (in Philadelphia) tomorrow night."

It was also the first chance I had to speak to Rizzotti since word came out that UConn/Hartford will resume their regular-season series beginning next season with a game at Hartford's Chase Arena.

"The series itself now that it's been played, it's been done it is not new anymore but the chance for our kids to have UConn in the building is awesome," Rizzotti said. "We have played them, other teams have had chances to have them in their building and we've never had that. I think it will be fun for our kids. We have just one senior so it will be good to have them back, our juniors, and it will be fun for their senior year and experience that excitement. It is always good to play the No. 1 team in the country and to be able to do that in your own gym makes it that much better."
Finally I leave you with an entry in the "it's a small world" department. Before heading up to Hartford, I attended the press conference announcing Tony Reno as Yale's new football coach. Big deal, you say. Well, when I spoke to Tony last week trying to get a sense of how seriously he was being considered for the Yale opening he told me that he went to high school with former UConn star Carla Berube. I never made the connection back when he was an assistant coach. He asked me if Chris Dailey still coaches at UConn and I told him that she did. He said he still remembers when Chris came to Oxford (Mass.) High to recruit Berube and what a big deal that was. Reno is 37 so that visit took place at least 20 years ago so next time you wonder why UConn is such a major player in recruiting, it doesn't hurt that their coaches can leave a lasting impression like Chris Dailey did two decades ago.



Jen Rizzotti, the USA Basketball National Coach of the Year, shares a laugh with U-19 team member and UConn sophomore Stefanie Dolson during the medal ceremony.



Former UConn star and current University of Hartford coach Jen Rizzotti has been named the 2011 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year after leading the United States to the gold medal at the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship for Women.

“It is an honor to be named the USA Basketball National Coach of the Year,” Rizzotti said. “I had a great group of players and an extremely hard working staff that deserves equal credit. Our players worked really hard in a short amount of time to become not just the best players, but the best team in the U19 Championship.  Joi Williams and Sue Semrau, my assistants, worked tirelessly to prepare for our opponents and help me keep perspective and balance throughout the tournament.

The U.S. won by an average of 16.6 points per game in the tournament while limited their opponents to 33.2 percent shooting from the floor.

Among her players were UConn's Stefanie Dolson, Bria Hartley and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis as well as UConn commits Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck and UConn recruiting target Diamond DeShields.

“I liked playing for coach Rizzotti because she was always intense and into the games, and even in practice she was intense,” Stewart said. “I think she wanted to get the best out of us in the little time that we had together, and I really enjoyed playing for her.”

In what turned out to be a game to decide the Group E champion in the FIBA Under-19 World Championships, the United States had no answer for the trio of Michelle Plouffe, her sister and Marquette rising sophomore Katherine Plouffe as well as Wumi Agunbiade.


Michelle Plouffe, who will be a sophomore at Utah, had 24 points and eight rebounds, Aguniblade had 15 points and Katherine Plouffe added 12 points in Canada's 64-52 victory.

Tennessee incoming freshman Ariel Massengale led the previous undefeated United States team with 17 points. UConn commit Breanna Stewart had eight points, three rebounds, two steals and two blocks. UConn rising sophomores Bria Hartley and Stefanie Dolson were a combined 3 of 12 from the floor.

The loss means that the U.S. will be the No. 2 seed out of Group E heading into Friday's quarterfinals and could end up having to play the top seed out of Group F in the semfinals if they win on Friday when they play France in the quarterfinals. France actually finished tied with Brazil and Australia in Group F but Brazil earned the top seed followed by Australia and France.

"It obviously changes our path to get to a gold medal opportunity, but I hope it makes a difference in a positive way," said U.S. head coach Jen Rizzotti. "Hopefully it wakes the kids up a little bit and proves to them that this isn’t the last two years where they’ve played against kids their age. We’re talking about 19-year-old kids who play in college. We just didn’t show the maturity today to be able to beat a team like Canada. They were great."

Here are some quotes from Hartley as well as Stewart and fellow UConn commit Morgan Tuck.

Bria Hartley
On today’s game:Canada did a really good job of controlling the tempo of the game. They’re a team that likes to slow it down, run half-court sets. We let them do that and we didn’t really pressure them enough to get them out of that offense. They were in the flow the entire game and we didn’t disrupt that.

We just let it get away from us. We had to go that extra push. We tied it up, we had to get some stops, but we didn’t come through with our stops so they got the best of us.

Breanna Stewart
What was Canada doing to disrupt your game?They did it with their two-three zone. They had that very compact in the paint. It was hard to get any movement in the post. They’re also very physical, which was hard.

On the USA’s shooting:Yeah, it was frustrating. If you’re taking open shots and missing the ones that usually go in, it gets frustrating after awhile.

Morgan Tuck
Were you a little shocked at Canada’s start to the game?I don’t know if it was shocking. We didn’t really come out focused. By the way we were playing, we could tell that they were going to be up. We just have to go into the next game and be focused more.

Your team has been very up and down all tournament, what needs to be tightened up now that every game is a must-win game?Just having a mental focus. Everybody needs to be on the same page. Everybody needs to, from the beginning to the end of the game, be focused the entire time.

On the play of her high school teammate Ariel Massengale against Canada:Ariel definitely knew that she needed to step up in order for us to get back into the game. She did a great job of doing that.

During my interview with former UConn star and current U.S. Under-19 head coach Jen Rizzotti, I asked her about the five team members either already at UConn or committed to the program.

She gave me the following quote: "She’s been the best surprise for me since I got here. When you have a chance to coach her every day and notice all the little things she does, she immediately becomes one of your favorite players. She is another one of those kids who is in the right place all the time and I don’t think it is by accident. She is an absolute joy to have on your team. She does so many little things. I am big on the intangible things, I love players who bring intangibles and she brings a ton of intangibles. She has been really wonderful to have on the team."

I intentionally left out the player's name. Just curious if anybody would like to guess whether it was Stefanie Dolson, Bria Hartley, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Breanna Stewart or Morgan Tuck she was talking about.

I will have a couple of stories in the near future from my interviews yesterday with Jen, Bria, Stefanie, Breanna and Morgan. But here are some thoughts from Jen as she prepares to lead the U.S. team down to Chile and in pursuit of the U-19 World Championship.

"I am very excited and a little nervous," Rizzotti said. "Obviously you always think you need more practice and more preparation but at the same time you want to see what your stuff looks like against somebody else. These kids have been to training camps (before), they’ve done this in years’ past. This gets kind of old coming to double sessions and staying in dorms. There is an added element when you travel and stay in hotels together, you are spending time off the floor in a foreign country
together.

"You kind of feel like it is you against the world and at times that is the way we feel. Everybody wants to see us lose. We are there as a group of 15 to stand together and win against all odds. I think that element will add some excitement to it. Then there is a chance to play other people and use our depth against somebody other than ourselves and see what we can do. These guys are gamers. As much as they need to practice, they definitely want to play."

The tournament starts on Thursday with the championship game slated for July 31.

UConn's Stefanie Dolson and Bria Hartley, incoming freshmen Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Kiah Stokes, UConn commits Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck as well as Connecticut recruiting target Diamond DeShields are among 35 players invited to the U.S. Under-19 team trials.

The trials will be held from May 22-25 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

After the team is selected, the squad will report to the June 1-5 training camp at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., as part of the ESPN RISE Girls Showcase. The USA will train for four days before facing the Brazil U19 National Team on June 5. The game will be televised on ESPNU and also shown online at ESPN3.com.

The team will reassemble on July 11 for additional training sessions in Colorado Springs before leaving for Chile for the U-19 World Championships. The U.S. is in Group B for preliminary round play and will tip-off against Japan on July 21 (12:30 p.m. EDT) before facing Russia and Argentina on July 22 and 23. The second round will be played July 25-27, quarterfinals are slated for July 29, semifinals will be held on July 30 and the finals are scheduled for July 31.

The U.S. team will be coached by former UConn star Jen Rizzotti.

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