Without a dominant post player like Baylor's Brittney Griner blocking their path or a team like Georgia Tech with multiple players in the 6-4/6-5 range to make things difficult, UConn post players Stefanie Dolson and Heather Buck each recorded career highs in points in Friday's 86-25 win over Howard.

Dolson was a different player after spending a stretch on the bench watching Buck make an impact and when she came back into the game in the first half, she was unstoppable on the low blocks. Dolson made her final five shots and finished with 13 points in 15 minutes. Buck scored six straight points after making an early appearance and ended up with eight points and three rebounds in 11 minutes.

"Once you go in and get a couple of buckets, a couple rebounds your confidence builds," Dolson said. "The team started playing a lot better together, it was a lot more fluid and things started working out better.

On the bench, we stay focused on the game and bring the mindset of what Heather did out there just lets us refocus and improve on what she did. It definitely feels good. I am definitely somebody who overthinks things. When you have a game like this, it definitely helps your confidence. It will carry onto other games this weekend and other games in the future."

Although she spends as much if not more time on the perimeter than she does inside, Maya Moore considers herself a post player and she wants to see more consistent production from the group of post players rather than having the Huskies rely on their perimeter game.

"We have to have an inside presence and right now we are still proving that inside presence," Moore said. "I don't think it is where it needs to be yet but I have confidence it can improve. It is up to us as post players to come out every night and make sure our presence is felt and when we demand the ball, the guards will give it to us."

Following the game, the winning streak was a popular topic in the post-game press conference. UConn's 82nd straight win is now the longest for an NCAA women's team, regardless of division as Division III Washington University in St. Louis won 81 straight games from 1998-2001.

"It is a part of who we are and we can't do anything about that, the attention and all the hype around this program we are going to get a part of that," Moore said. "But this team has to stay so focused to know we chart our progress and our excitement by how much we improve and our specific team goals with what we have right now. Of course it is awesome to know that and to take pride in that but it is even more important that as every game builds to make sure we keep things in perspective."

Howard narrowly missed making its way into the UConn record book for the wrong reasons. The 25 points just missed cracking the top five for the fewest points by a Connecticut opponent and the nine points in the second half also narrowly missed making in the top five.