Even by UConn standards, the Huskies' victory over Iowa State was impressive. The Huskies look especially impossible to beat when everybody's outside shots are falling, and yesterday they certainly fell: Maya Moore and Kelly Faris (Kelly Faris!) combined to go 9-11 from three-point-land, the Cyclones (the whole team) 6-25.

"Connecticut are certainly as good as advertised," said coach Fennelly afterwards. "I don't think I've had a whipping like that since I was a little kid and I broke something of my mom's."

Nothing against coach Fennelly's mom, but the one-sided-ness of this result-- combined with the Nebraska loss-- suggests that at least some fine Big XII teams have trouble playing at speed. Iowa State doesn't seem to have scheduled any elite running teams on their non-conference slate: will ISU line a couple of them up next year?

Somehow I missed this headline two weeks ago: anyone up for two-on-two hoops involving the President of the United States, Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, and Maya Moore?