In more meaningless preseason action, the Sun squashed the Sting in Bridgeport. Katie Douglas looked great. All the Sun's posts looked great. McCarville, who started her first pro game, didn't look great, nor did Conlon. At one point Connecticut led by 21.

Douglas says she felt awful all winter after last year's finals, but she can get over it now: "I've been through way too much in my life to let something like [missed shots] weigh on me for too long."

Conlon-- and Taurasi-- graduated from UConn yesterday (as did Battle, Marron, Valley, and J-Mo), but new NCAA rules treat Maria and Diana as if they had not. DiMauro gets indignant: "Mr. Brand and his minions must distinguish between the senior who leaves and the senior who returns and graduates."

"Would you be more likely to go to a Connecticut Sun game if Maria Conlon was on the team?" The Hartford Courant wants to know.