UConn thumped Oakland in Hartford, but not without cost: Tina Charles landed on, and banged up, the same shoulder she hurt in high school. (Geno expects that with rest, she'll be good to go.)

Much-injured Brittany Hunter had a superb first half but may have reinjured her knee. Geno: "She looked great when she was out there. And then she said she landed on it and felt something. So we don't know whether it's just irritated or whether she tweaked something in there."

With Charles and Hunter, in the first half, the Huskies controlled the paint; without them, in the second, the Huskies still controlled the paint, outdoing Oakland on the glass by 21. Next up: Jen Rizzotti's Hartford Hawks.

UPDATE: the Courant blog squad chats with Hunter about the knee. "It's not too bad," she says.

Also blogging the Huskies this season: the Norwich Bulletin's Joe Perez, and the several reporters who cover UConn for the New London Day.