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MALIBU, Calif. (AP) -- Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma has some scary news for the world of women's college basketball. His 2000-01 team is even better than last year's.
The top-ranked and defending national champion Huskies were overpowering again Tuesday night, rolling to a 98-63 victory over Pepperdine.
"We've got kids who run very well, who move without the ball,
and we have unselfish players," Auriemma said after the Huskies
made it two routs in their first two games of the season.
"We're a year older and more mature."
Pepperdine coach Mark Trakh was certainly impressed, calling the
Huskies "the best team in the history of women's college
basketball."
Svetlana Abrosimova scored 16 points and Swin Cash added 13
points and seven rebounds for UConn.
The Huskies (2-0) scored the first eight points and were in
command the rest of the way.
UConn reserve Tamika Williams scored 15 points in her 14
minutes, Shea Ralph added 13 points, and Asjha Jones had 12.
Nadja Morgan led Pepperdine (2-2) with 11 points, and Rasheeda
Clark had 10.
Abrosimova scored six points in the first five minutes. Then,
with Auriemma substituting often, Williams scored six points in a
row and Jones came in and scored six more as UConn opened a 29-15
gap with 8:33 remaining in the first half.
Cash scored 10 first-half points and had five rebounds.
Dominating the scrappy but less-skilled Waves in every area of
the game, the Huskies shot 58 percent from the floor to
Pepperdine's 37 percent.
The Huskies, who have their top eight scorers back from their
1999-2000 national championship season, were coming off a 99-70
rout of then-No. 3 Georgia in their season opener.
The game was UConn's second against Pepperdine; the Huskies beat
the Waves 101-58 last season.
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