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As practice officially opens Friday, one thing is certain: Until UConn loses -- like Geno Auriemma swears it will -- they Huskies are still standing at the front of the pack.

After UConn routed the nation's No. 2 team by 30 points Monday, it became a foregone conclusion who would win the NCAA title. The more popular debate is how these Huskies rate against the 39-0 UConn champs from 2002.

Geno Auriemma and Sylvia Hatchell might be opposites. But their teams, UConn and UNC, have a lot in common: entertaining, fast-paced, fantastic basketball.

If Charlie Creme's December Bracketology ended up as March's 64-team NCAA tournament field, how would it play out? Here are round-by-round predictions -- and yes, UConn reaches St. Louis and the Final Four.

After failing to close out a win against UConn earlier in the week, North Carolina's LaToya Pringle and Erlana Larkins made sure not to let it happen again. The senior posts' new mentality helped hand Maryland its first overtime loss in three years and give UNC the lead in the ACC.

Three No. 1 seeds reached the Elite Eight, which tips off Monday when Rutgers faces Arizona State.

Like those Wright brothers years ago, some teams are flying high into the Big Dance. Others? Not so much. At least, that's the way Orville and Wilbur tell it.

For the second year in a row, Tennessee got placed in the toughest regional. But unlike recent seasons, there are fewer complaints to make about the selection committee, no matter how many times it threw around a three-word answer Monday.

Sometimes, being wrong -- as in failing to pick UNC to upset UConn on Sunday -- doesn't feel so bad.

Mechelle Voepel doesn't expect the ACC to pull off upsets in Sunday's Jimmy V Classic.