With starting center Stefanie Dolson annoying UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma, first for grabbing just two rebounds against a small Howard team and then have a less than inspired effort in Saturday's practice, Auriemma went to a small lineup for the Saturday night game against Lehigh.

Samarie Walker, a 6-foot-1 freshman, and 6-foot Moore started down low. UConn posted Moore up as often as possible to take advantage of the matchup since nobody on Lehigh could guard Moore that close to the basket.

"I think I have a little more of a warrior mindset when I am out there, I have to hold it down in the middle," said Moore, who had 29 points and had UConn's first eight points. "It is something I have to be prepared to do when Coach (Auriemma) puts us out there with a small lineup. We will have a mismatch on one end but on the other end we will have a mismatch offensively."

Auriemma didn't pull any punches when addressing the decision to sit Dolson for the entire first half while giving Walker her first start.

"Samarie's been working at a real high level in practice," Auriemma said. "I thought defensively she'd be a little better to help us because most of their big guys are perimeter guys so I thought Samarie would be better to do that. Stefanie played how many minutes the other night, 15? So we don't want to wear her out. Those two rebounds (against Howard) took a lot out of her so we want to save her for the stretch run. She came to practice today and she was really beaten up. I didn't realize the toll it was taking."

Dolson wasn't the only person on the receiving end of Auriemma's stinging sarcasm.

When Tennessee and Louisville played, Tennessee coach Pat Summitt was quoted as saying she'd have no problem continuing to play Louisville in the regular season.

"He's really, really good and he's going to keep winning and he's going to keep getting players," Summitt said of Louisville coach Jeff Walz. "I think he does things the right way and that's why I would consider us trying to keep the series going."

It doesn't take a Rhodes Scholar to pick up on the subtle dig at Summitt's decision to cancel the UConn series because she took offense to UConn's recruiting tactics.

With LSU coach Van Chancellor having said he'd consider restarting the series the Lady Tigers used to have with UConn, Auriemma replied as only he could.

"We are not playing any SEC schools except them (this season)," Auriemma said. "I could see us getting that series back with Van, he does things the right way."