It was pretty much a perfect storm for UConn in its preseason opener.

Returning starters Tiffany Hayes (25 points) and Maya Moore (24 points, 7 assists, 4 steals) played like the All-Americans they are expected to play. Fellow starters Lorin Dixon (11 points, four assists), Kelly Faris (11 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 steals) and Stefanie Dolson (five points, eight rebounds, two blocks) all contributed.

Freshmen Bria Hartley (14 points, 6 assists) and Samarie Walker (11 points, nine rebounds) continued a streak of UConn players hitting double digits in scoring in the first preseason game to six games.

Ironically, Kelly Faris (against St. Rose in 2009), Caroline Doty (against Stonehill in 2008) and Moore (against the U.S. team in 2007) also had 14 in their first UConn exhibition.

Heather Buck also had a solid game with four points and eight rebounds in 13 minutes.

"We have to get contributions from everybody," Moore said. "It is a new year, the old teams the old history is gone. This is what we have, everybody's going to come in and bring something. We can't just depend on the reputation of the program."

Franklin Pierce played in the 2009 Division II national championship game and also reached the Final Four in 2010 but with the graduation of two-time Division II national player of the year Johannah Leedham and injuries/illness potentially costing the Ravens top returning players Cynthia Gaudet and Tori Ahrens for the season, Franklin Pierce did not put up as much of a fight as it would have in the last couple of years.

"We were 18-0 and ranked No. 1 in the country (in Division II) at the time," Hancock said of when he was contacted by UConn to play the Huskies in the preseason. "The last three years we have been really strong, we've won our conference, we've been to the Elite Eight. It is a new composition but I was excited. I wished we had played them last year or the year before, we might have been able to put up a few more points. It would have nice to see the national player (of the year) Johannah Leedham go up against Maya and Tina (Charles).

Hancock said he was uncertain whether Leedham, currently playing with former UConn star Kalana Greene in Poland with Gorzow, would be freed up from her commitments with the Great Britain national team to play for the Connecticut Sun in the upcoming WNBA season.

"She can play," Hancock said. "If she played here, she'd put 20 up every night against everybody. I am not sure if her national coach is going to let her get away from the FIBA games this summer, come and try out."