The UConn women's basketball team's dominance of the American Athletic Conference has been so staggering that the rest of the teams are left searching for moral victories against the Huskies.

UConn has played 95 conference games since the formation of the AAC and in 94 of them, it became evident soon after the opening tip that about the only drama was the final margin of victory. In 50 of those games the Huskies had at least twice as many points as their conference "rivals." On 58 occasions, the opposing team never held the lead.

With UConn having a chance to clinch at least a share of a fifth straight AAC title, there are no refresher courses necessary to remind the veteran UConn players of the lone AAC team who fought the Huskies right down to the final buzzer.

Last February an undefeated UConn team headed down to New Orleans to meet a Tulane team it had handled with remarkable ease just a month earlier. A 17-point lead was down to two after a 3-pointer by Leslie Vorpahl with 15 seconds to play. The Green Wave had the ball, down three with 10 seconds remaining, but a turnover prevented them from attempting a game-tying shot. UConn is back at the Devlin Fieldhouse on Wednesday (8 p.m., SNY).

"We're still kind of upset about it," UConn senior forward Gabby Williams said. "Not just one straight answer, of course Kia (Nurse) wasn't playing so that had a big impact, the guys who were playing didn't show up, especially myself. I was really disappointed in my play in that game. There's a whole combination of things that didn't go our way."

Senior guard Kolby Morgan had 19 points for Tulane in the near-upset, and no active player has scored more points against UConn. However, Vorpahl's graduation left Morgan without another player to take some of the offensive burden. That was evident when she was 1 for 10 from the field in a 98-45 loss at UConn on Jan. 27. Morgan's slump did not end when Tulane left Connecticut, as the eighth leading active scorer in Division I women's basketball is shooting 29 percent from the field in the last six games, including 15 percent on 3-pointers.

"She's hard to guard," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "She doesn't have a lot of help this year so they've really struggled scoring points but we played them pretty well when they came up here. They're well coached, Lisa (Stockton) does a good job with them and any time you can get a kid who can get 20-25, obviously it's something you have to prepare for, but I feel pretty good about it."

UConn could actually clinch a share of the program's 24th regular-season conference championship while the game is going on. South Florida is two games back and the Bulls play Houston at 7 p.m. A loss by USF would give a share of the title to the Huskies, and the outright championship could be secured with a victory over Tulane.

If USF and UConn both win Wednesday, the Huskies still have no worse than a share of the title heading into Saturday's game at 10-17 SMU, so the regular-season finale against USF figures to have no bearing on the championship race.