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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Looking ahead to second exhibition

Considering that Division II Indiana (Pa.) likely won't have a player taller than 5-11, don't expect UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma to do cartwheels if post players Stefanie Dolson and Heather Buck top the nine points and 16 rebounds they combined for in the first preseason game against Franklin Pierce.

"Nothing," Auriemma said after Tuesday's practice. "The practices are what we use to gauge where we are and where our progress is. Tomorrow is just about playing at the (XL) Center before we go back down there on Tuesday (against Baylor). Other than that, you are not going to be able to take a lot from whatever happens good or bad. I look at it if they play well, great I am happy for them. If they don't play well ... If it is the young guys, if they play well I will be thrilled. if they don't, are they nervous, are they anxious?

"Sometimes when you play a small team like that and you have to defend people in areas where you might not have to defend them during the year. The more things that you see that don't make sense, the more you can see stuff, the better."

The 7 p.m. game at the XL Center will bring an end to the preseason as UConn opens the regular season by hosting Holy Cross on Sunday at 2 p.m. at Gampel Pavilion before playing Baylor on Tuesday at the XL Center.

Speaking of the Baylor game, highly-touted Class of 2012 post Breanna Stewart from North Syracuse, N.Y. is expected to be in attendance and there's a chance that '12 forward Morgan Tuck from Bolingbrook, Ill., a teammate of Stewart's on the U.S. Under-17 national team, could also come in to watch the game.

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