Mohegan – This much we know about the Connecticut Sun: Enter a game of Jeopardy! with them this season at your own risk. Holy doctorates, Batman. Have you seen this roster?

Two Stanfords: Chiney Ogwumike, Kayla Pedersen.

Three Dukes: Chelsea Gray, No. 1 draft choice Elizabeth Williams, one of the newest daughters of Sun who was taken Thursday night at Mohegan Sun Arena and Jasmine Williams, who came over from Atlanta via a late trade.

Lest we forget Kelsey Bone, who dropped the word "dichotomy" into casual conversation last summer.

Maybe if the games don't go so well this summer, the Sun can invite their opponents to Ballo for a few spirited games of chess.

"It's like coaching Ivy," Sun coach Anne Donovan said.

Donovan might want to consider a "word of the day" at practice this year. Anyone she stumps has to buy the coach at bottle of Grey Goose, which rarely fails to come in handy for coaches during basketball seasons.

Ogwumike, who still maintains more energy than Con Edison, spoke Italian to reporters Thursday night. Williams spent last summer at Duke as a member of "CAPE," the College Athlete Premedical Experience.

The College Athlete Premedical Experience. (Bet this was a real hot button issue at the men's Final Four). Williams observed doctors undertaking real surgeries. She says she wants to be a doctor.

"She took O-Chem," Ogwumike said, which is oral shorthand for "organic chemistry." This just in about organic chemistry, according to a website:

"Mastering organic chemistry means you should be able to intuitively understand things like what happens to an equilibrium if the concentration of the product is changed and the effect of changing the concentration of a reactant in a second-order reaction on the reaction rate," it said.

It went on: "how bonding interactions change with electronegativities, what happens to the Gibbs free energy term of a reaction as the temperature is varied and how properties like electronegativity, electron affinity, ionic radius, etc. change as you go across the periodic table."

And you thought the only organic chemist you knew was Walter White on "Breaking Bad."

Of course, there's only one element of the periodic table that applies to the last few Sun seasons: Na. Not the literal translation of sodium. More like: "Did the Sun have a good summer?" Answer: "Na."

Which is where Williams enters. Good defender and rebounder. She'll push Bone to perhaps use words saltier than "dichotomy." And the doctor stuff can wait.

"Everyone knows she wants to go to medical school," Ogwumike said, "but she's talked to me and said, 'This is my time.'"

All this invites the question of whether smarts are relevant. If lofty IQ levels produced a cause and effect with great basketball players, Yale would have UConn's 10 national titles. But if a player has a reasonable baseline of athletic talent, does classroom excellence necessarily translate to the floor?

"In basketball," Donovan said, "you need a little bit of both. Understanding play sets, defensive schemes, adjustment to new rules. We've got players that will fit right into all that."

They sure do. Note to Sun fans: Grouse all you want about the dearth of UConn players on this team. Just know that while you bellyache, you'll miss the chance to get to know some really intelligent, accomplished kids, whose lone character flaw, it appears, is avoiding Storrs for four years. Connecticut fans are the best in the game. They should start acting like it. If you want UConn in the summer, have a picnic outside Gampel Pavilion.

Meantime, the Sun have many, many moving parts right now. But some talent, too. Can Donovan mold them into a symphony by September? We'll see. But it's a charming, engaging and very smart group.

"I'm happy," Ogwumike said of Williams, "to have another nerd in the building."

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.

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