Mohegan - Remember this one and write it down: When you need to unearth some information within women's basketball, you go to Sue Bird. There's a reason why her old college coach, Geno Auriemma, once described her as "Radar from M*A*S*H. She knows everything about everything and more importantly, she HAS to."

And so it was Friday afternoon in Neon Uncasville, the prelude to "Stars At The Sun," today's extravaganza of WNBA All-Stars and future Olympians, when Radar was needed. Topic: Is there a little griping going on right now about the potential for too many UConn players to wind up on the Olympic team?

"It's floating out there," Sue said.

Is it floating happily (like a tourist on vacation in the pool) or floating, you know, like a mob informant?

"It's more gossip," she said. "I don't think the players are going to come out and say it. I think observers put it out there either because they agree with it or because they don't have anything else to talk about."

Auriemma has heard it, too, mentioning it Thursday during a Team USA practice at Connecticut College.

This just in: The haters better learn the UConn fight song. Because there is a very good chance that about half the Olympic team will be former UConn players. Reason No. 1: They are among the best players. Reason No. 2: It's the most prudent decision.

Auriemma was about as subtle as ESPN's love for LeBron talking about Team USA's chances in the Czech Republic this September in the world championships. He said, essentially, that the U.S. has the best players, but that its opponents will have practiced together significantly more. This weekend could be the last full practices Auriemma gets with his players until the world championships because of the WNBA regular season and playoffs.

Translation: He needs players who are familiar with his system. It doesn't hurt, either, that most of his former players are just about the best in the world at their positions.

"You definitely hear it," Sun guard Kara Lawson said, alluding to the potential UConn-i-zation of Team USA. "You don't want to say it's the elephant in the room. It's Geno's system that he's run for many years and no one can argue (his former college players) are the most instinctive within it. But to me, it's wasted effort complaining. I want to pick this up as soon as possible. This is about winning."

Among the potential UConn players: Bird, Diana Taurasi, Swin Cash, Asjha Jones, Tina Charles, Maya Moore and Renee Montgomery.

Figure that Bird, Taurasi, Moore and Charles are locks.

Cash and Jones have great chances. Cash, who was a centerpiece for championship teams in Detroit, might be playing the best basketball of her career in Seattle this season. Jones, slow to recover from an Achilles' injury, has established herself as an elite, if underrated at times, WNBA forward. If Jones' second half of the season is what's expected, it'll be very hard to leave a consistent, trustworthy and quintessential pro home.

Montgomery's chances would be the worst of the seven. She's played well in spurts this season, but without the consistency the Sun have needed. Auriemma might fight for her, but the final U.S. roster will be a committee decision.

Still, that leaves the chance for six UConn players on the 2012 Olympic team.

"Geno Auriemma is not a dumb guy. USA basketball isn't filled with dumb people," Bird said. "They're not going to put people on the team who don't deserve to be there."

Bird knows the conundrum. She said, "There are players in the WNBA you can't overlook regardless of whether they can run the plays." She also said, "The fact that some of us went to UConn, what's the big deal? If you're good enough to be on the team, it shouldn't matter."

Taurasi said she "didn't think there was enough" potential UConn players, wondering who, exactly, you'd leave off.

If nothing else, this makes for some interesting conversation. Not everyone views women's basketball as provincially as we do here. But if somebody out there can come up with a better six than Bird, Taurasi, Charles, Moore, Jones and Cash, Geno Auriemma is all ears.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.