Rarely a game has gone by, especially when the record-setting UConn women's basketball team is on the road, when audible gasps aren't heard when Gabby Williams soars over her taller opponents to snare a rebound just a matter of inches from the rim.

Coach Geno Auriemma has gone as far as to compare her impact on a game to that of NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor. Social media doesn't lack for people calling Williams the most electric athlete in women's college basketball after one of the Huskies' nationally or regionally televised games.

However, while Williams has played a starring role as UConn opened her junior season with 16 straight wins and set an NCAA record with 91 consecutive victories, she is demonstrating there is much more to her game than merely using her world-class jumping ability to thrive as an undersized forward.

Williams leads the Huskies in rebounds, assists and steals. The only players in UConn history to lead the Huskies in those three categories for an entire season are Svetlana Abrosimova (1998-99) and Maya Moore (2010-11).

"There are a lot of athletic players who can't do what she can do," said Auriemma, whose Huskies bid for their 92nd straight win on Tuesday at Tulsa (8 p.m., SNY). "Being a great athlete is one thing, but being intelligent enough to know how to take advantage and use your athletic ability and know the game well enough to be able to do something, that is the kind of stuff she's doing."

Williams' rebound per 40-minute totals in her first two seasons were among the best in program history and it took her all of 104 seconds to record her first career steal when she made her UConn debut against UC Davis in 2014. Still, Williams chuckles when people suggest to her that snaring rebounds and coming up with steals are easy for her.

"I'm glad it looks easy because it is not," Williams said. "Rebounds and steals are something I've taken personally because Mo (Moriah Jefferson) with all the steals, (Morgan) Tuck and Stewie (Breanna Stewart) with all the rebounds so I think I am just trying to do my part to just fill in for that."

As Williams referenced, she is among the players filling new roles following the graduation of All-Americans Jefferson, Stewart and Tuck. Williams has been entrusted with what has become one of the most important positions in UConn's offensive system in recent years.

Like Stefanie Dolson and Tuck, Williams has thrived playing in the high post where she can create her own shot or dump the ball down to a teammate. So many of Stewart's baskets came off assists from Dolson or Tuck in UConn's high-low post offensive sets. Now it is Williams getting the ball to Napheesa Collier.

A total of 34 of Williams' 78 assists have come on Collier's baskets. The LSU game is the only one this season when Williams didn't assist on a hoop by Collier.

"I am trying to get my assists up and I am trying to find Napheesa," Williams said. "It helps knowing that she can score and the defense knows that too, it kind of keeps the defense moving."

Williams was named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Week on Monday after averaging 15 points, 11.5 rebounds and 6.5 assists in wins over South Florida and SMU.

"She is understanding the game more and starting to know where to pass it and when before it even happens," UConn junior guard Kia Nurse said. "She understands her reads, she understands what cuts are going to be made, who makes what cuts and what will be successful. She get it there on time and on target.

"A lot of people just see her athleticism and that's it but Gabby does a lot of things out there that make her a great basketball player.