Mel Thomas and Nicole Wolff held Jessica Dickson to 6 points and Barbara Turner led a balanced offensive attack in a 77-47 UConn rout over South Florida.

Dickson entered the game leading the nation in scoring with nearly 25 ppg but finished the game with six points on 2-9 shooting. As she explains, "they had more than one person coming at me, two off the screen. I had to work to get open and it did have an effect on me. My legs got a little tired."

Offensively, UConn shot 56.6 percent to 32.8 percent for South Florida. Turner led the way with 16 points on 7-9 shooting in 22 minutes. A 61-34 lead with 13:27 left allowed Geno Auriemma to rest his banged-up team. Only freshman Renee Montgomery, who played 27 minutes and matched a season high with nine assists, played more than 22 minutes.

Last season when the two teams met, it took overtime for the Huskies to win. As extra motivation Auriemma played a little five-minute highlight clip of that game right before the Huskies went out to warm up Tuesday night. While this was unusual, it appeared to work.