Uconn really came on strong at Gampel Pavillion without Mel Thomas on the court. OF course Mel was on the sidelines next to Kalana Greene.

The 1/1 Uconn will be facing No. 3 North Carolina on Monday. Can they pull this game off? Renee Montgomery is going to have to do exactly what she did Saturday, and try her hardest with Mel and Kalana cheering them on in the backround.

Do you think they can do it? Lets hope so.

When Uconn lost Kalana Greene for the seaon, yes maybe they did loose a great player, but there was still hope because she was still a junior and still had another year, and also she was still eligable for a red shirt which means because she missed a certain amount of a season, she could play another year.

But now the Huskies have lost their best 3-point shooter senior guard who is the Huskies' 3rd best shooter who is not eligable for a red shirt! On Tuesday January 15th Uconn played against Syracuse with nearly 2 minutes left in the game.... Mel fell to the ground scrambling for a loose ball and torn an ACL and a knee legament. Some people thought she would be alright because she was able to get up and limp very badly, some people thought she just toor it. But now Mel's college career is over.

What will Uconn DO?

The 1/1 Uconn Women's Basketball team has been struggling the last two games to keep their title but have managed to keep their position as #1 being undefeated. But can they do it without senior starter captain Mel Thomas?

Last night (Tuesday January 15th) Uconn faced Syracuse.... and it was their worst game of the season but still managed to win by only 6 points. But the biggest scare of the night was that at about 1 1/2 minutes left in the game Mel Thomas who had played the whole game and led Uconn with 15 points went flying and hurt her right knee as she came up slowly nearly sobbing she was limping very badly and solomley off the court.

No reports have come back on her MRI that she supposidly got this morning.

The question is... Will Mel Be able to play the rest of the season? and. Will the Huskies be able to keep their #1 position or will they fall down dramatically?

What do you think?

Now we all know that Mel Thomas-the captain senior guard for the Connecticut Huskies- is a great basketball player.... but is she like a staircase?

Mel Thomas is my favorite player of all time but I do think that she is like a staircase sometimes. Such as one game she can lead her team with 19 points and the next game down to 16(not that its bad!) but then the next game not score anything.

The only thing with Mel is that after a game that Mel doesn't score anything.... I would hate to be the next team to play against Connecticut because even though she still is not at her best she is about 3/4 of the way up her staircase.

Last game after not scoring anything againts PurDue she scores the 3rd highest on Uconn of the game of 14 points.

Megan Culmo once again interviews Mel Thomas after she come back from her little shooting slump and leads Uconn With 19 points. 5 which came from behind the arc (3 pointers).

Sophomore center Tina Charles hadn't scored in double figures in two straight games after doing it in the first nine. But she scored 17 of her game-high 19 in the first half. She also had 11 rebounds, nine in the first half, as the Huskies opened a 47-15 lead.

After missing the Army game Monday with soreness in her right knee, senior forward Brittany Hunter started. ... Freshman Maya Moore (12 points) scored in double figures for the 12th straight game. She had five points and four rebounds in 13 minutes. ... Mel Thomas (16) and Renee Montgomery (11) also scored in double figures. ... The Huskies used a 57-17 rebounding advantage to prevent most second-chance opportunities. ... UConn entered the week last in the Big East in free-throw percentage (60.5), but shot 15-for-20 (75.0) from the line. ... Villanova's Maria Getty (52.1 percent) and Laura Kurz (50.0) were the conference's top three-point shooters, but went a combined 4-for-10. Kurz was 0-for-4. ... Villanova shot 14-for-52 (26.9 percent), 7-for-30 (23.3 percent) on three-pointers.

The Huskies had trouble shaking loose. The score was tied 10-10 with 13:17 left in the first half. ... UConn made 7 of 21 three-pointers.

Elena Delle Donne and Caroline Doty, two of four members of UConn's next freshman class, attended the game. Both are also recovering from illness and injury that have kept them out of their high school lineups.

Doty, a 5-foot-10 guard from Germantown (Pa.) Academy, tore her left ACL playing soccer in September and is out for the season.

"The extension rate in my leg is almost back to normal," Doty said. "It feels really good. I've been swimming and riding the [stationary] bike a lot and it's all going really well."

Doty and Delle Donne expect to attend both summer sessions at UConn this year and be ready for the start of preseason workouts.

Delle Donne, a 6-5 guard from Ursuline Academy in Wilmington, Del., is the all-time leading scorer in Delaware girls basketball history. She has missed the past three weeks with mono. If she gets good results from tests on her spleen today, she could be back as soon as Saturday.

"I feel really good," Delle Donne said. "I had new blood work taken [Thursday] and it came back very well. I'm so anxious to get back. It's so horrible not being able to play."

Ursuline will play Christ the King (N.Y), the alma mater of Charles and Lorin Dixon, Jan. 18 in Springfield.

Senior Ketia Swanier had two steals and now has 200 in her career. ... The Huskies have 25 consecutive regular season victories. ... Montgomery needs 72 points to become the 30th player to reach 1,000. ... Thomas, a senior, made 4 of 6 three-pointers. She has 216 in her career, fourth in UConn history, but far behind Wendy Davis (279) for third.

Next Uconn Game...- Sunday- January 6th at 1:30.

HARTFORD, Conn. (December 31, 2007) â€" Four players scored in double-figures as the No. 1/1 University of Connecticut women's basketball team closed out 2007 with an 82-33 victory over Army on Monday afternoon.



Senior Mel Thomas (Cincinnati, Ohio) led all scorers with 19 points, all of which came in the first half of play. She was 7-of-10 from the field, including a 5-of-8 performance from behind the 3-point line. Freshman Maya Moore (Lawrenceville, Ga.) extended her UConn record of double-figure scoring efforts to 11 games with 11 points in the contest. She also tied her career-best with a team-high six assists while blocking three shots. Senior Charde Houston (San Diego, Calif.) scored 10 points for her first double-figure game since the 2007 NCAA Fresno Regional semifinal against North Carolina State on March 24, and junior Renee Montgomery (St. Albans, W. Va.) rounded out the Huskies in double-figures with 10 points.



UConn (11-0) opened the game with a layup by Moore just five seconds into play and the Huskies extended their lead to 4-0 on a layup by sophomore Tina Charles (Jamaica, N.Y.) shortly thereafter. Army (6-6) came back within one point on a 3-pointer by Cara Enright with 18:28 left, but UConn rattled off 13 unanswered points over the next 2:48, eight of which came from Thomas, to increase its lead.

The Black Knights cut the Husky advantage to six points, 17-11, with just over 12 minutes remaining. However, UConn closed out the first half on a 13-0 run and held Army scoreless for the final 6:13 before taking a 47-15 lead into intermission.



Thomas was 7-of-8 from the floor in the first half, including a 5-of-6 effort from 3, as the Huskies shot 64.5% (20-of-31) from the floor in the frame. Charles led UConn on the boards with five rebounds in the half while Moore had four assists and two blocks.



The Huskies out-scored Army 35-18 in the second half to close out the victory. The UConn defense held the Black Knights without a field goal for 11:32 of the frame, in which Army went 0-for-12 from the field. For the game, UConn shot 53.3% (32-60) from the floor while Army went 14-of-50, a 28.0% clip. UConn dominated in the paint, scoring 36 points to Army's 10, while tallying 34 points off of 24 Black Knight miscues.



Charles led UConn with six rebounds while sophomore Meghan Gardler (Springfield, Pa.) had five off of the bench, four of which came in the second half. Houston led the Huskies with four steals, a season-best.



Enright led Army with seven points, while Alex McGuire had six points in the loss. Erin Anthony led the Black Knights with nine rebounds.

UConn will kick off the 2008 portion of the schedule on Thursday, Jan. 3, when they open BIG EAST play at Villanova. Game time is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET and will be broadcast live on CPTV.

Mel Thomas only needed one more three pointer to slide past Sue Bird and Jen Rizzotti in the career 3-pointers at Uconn. She made 5 all in the first half against ARMY. Mel has 212 career 3's. Lets hope she can move into the next place soon (3rd). GOOD LUCK MEL!

Four players in this game for Uconn scored in double figures yesturday; Mel Thomas led with 19 points; Maya Moore with 11 points; Charde Houston with 10 points; and Renee Montgomery with 10 points. This was a very well played game for the huskies even though all of their games really are. In head coach Geno Auriemma's opinion, his 11-0 huskies will soon end their winning streak after they play Villanova on Thursday because "the past 11 teams they have played were unfamiliar with Uconn's playing strategies and Villanova has played Uconn many times before". Let's hope that this time Geno is wrong.

Megan Culmo interviews coach Geno Auriemma and player (guard) Mel Thomas after the game of which Mel had scored her 1000 point while playing with Uconn. She is the 29th player in Uconn history to reach 1000 points in her career at Uconn. Besides her Dianna Taurasi and Sue Bird also have been recognized for reaching their 1000 points of which Taurasi actually reached over 2,000.

Yesturday (Monday December 31, 2007) Uconn's guard Mel Thomas finally came back from a small stump in the road. The last couple of games for uconn.... mel only averaged about 4-5 points per game and was loosing her 3-point streak. But yesturday she proved that with a little confidence she could proove herself worthy of being able to hold her place as a starter when she scored the game high of 19 point... 5 of which were behind the arc (3-pointers). The Uconn game ended up with a score of 82(UCONN)-33(ARMY). Uconn has a streak of 12 wins and 0 losses. They are the #1 college team in the country.