Free sneakers may not be enough to keep UConn playing well through an entire game. At the Hartford Civic Center today, they managed to make it through the first ten minutes without a turnover, then only had two for the entire first half. Geno must have seemed too happy in the locker room, though. Ten turnovers in the second half brought the game to just five under their season average. We wouldn't want to mess up that stat, now, would we?

Sloppy play or no, Syracuse never really had a prayer, in spite of a great performance from beyond the arc by senior guard Rochelle Coleman. The Huskies easily put them away 85-49, bringing the Orange-gals to 3-11 in the Big East.