So the questions are a little different for the Huskies and the Lady Lions.

Penn State (23-11) women's basketball coach Rene Portland has spent the last few days talking about her young team, and how it is coping with the added pressure and expectations of playing in the NCAA tournament round of 16.

Geno Auriemma, who will be patrolling the Connecticut (35-0) sideline during tomorrow's 11 a.m. showdown in Milwaukee's U.S. Cellular Arena, meanwhile, has had a different dilemma -- tap-dancing around the question of whether his team is the greatest of all time.

"We had some pretty good teams in the past," Auriemma said. "Winning is staying injury free ... last year's team was maybe the best team until those guys got hurt."

While the question of the Huskies legacy is something for future debate, the team's prowess this season is not. So far Connecticut's closest contest of the season was its 59-50 defeat of Virginia Tech Jan. 29.

The Lions still are not backing down.

"You've got to have confidence against UConn," freshman guard Tanisha Wright said.

"They sleep like we sleep, they play basketball like we play basketball ... they're very talented basketball players, but they're just like us."

That level of talent includes point guard Sue Bird, the recently crowned Naismith Award winner, along with four other starters who average double-digit scoring per game.

Together, this collective has combined to form an offensive explosion that has yielded a 36.7 point average margin of victory, the latest of which came Monday night when they upended Iowa 89-46.

The Huskies will not be the only team with big scorers on the floor, but Auriemma said he is not planning on doing anything special to guard Penn State guard Kelly Mazzante, the nations' leading scorer.

"If you go in and try to do anything special for any person, you're getting away from your philosophy," Auriemma said.

Portland's sees her team's biggest problem being the size matchups against the Huskies, especially facing her shorter frontcourt players such as Wright and point guard Jess Strom.

"What we consider a post player they consider a guard because of their size and speed," Portland said.

The coach also said she would have to conserve her timeouts to prevent the Connecticut scoring runs that have done in teams all season.

Regardless of how daunting the odds might be, the Lions are not ruling themselves out.

"We're just going to go in there and do what we are capable of doing," Mazzante said. "If we beat them, then we beat them and maybe people will look at us, but I think as long as we respect ourselves and the university respects us, that's all we really care about."