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UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies are finding new ways to win each game.It seems that a different player steps up every game. It was Napheesa Colliers turn on Sunday.Collier scored 24 points and No. 2 UConn won its 82nd consecutive game with a 72-54 victory over No. 14 Texas in the annual Jimmy V Classic.Its really hard to pinpoint or put a label on this team, Auriemma said. They just seem to do what they need to do. Thats what it appears to me right now. We dont appear to be a team that imposes their will on the other team like weve been doing the last couple years. What do we have to do today? We figure it out and just do it.Kia Nurse added 15 points for the Huskies (7-0), who are in the midst of the second-longest winning streak in womens basketball history, trailing only their 90-game run from 2008-10.Next up is top-ranked Notre Dame.Its going to be fun the next couple days preparing, Auriemma said. Thats still one of my favorite things to do, prepare for a really good team on the road. ... Sometimes more fun than the actual game. Im looking forward to seeing how as a team, what kind of look the players have these next two days. I think theyll be pretty excited. Its the first time in a while youre going in and someone else is No. 1 in the country.UConn led by nine at the half before Texas (2-4) closed to 51-49 with 3:18 left in the third quarter on a 3-pointer by Brooke McCarty. The Huskies then scored the next 12 points, including the final six of the period to get some breathing room. Collier capped the burst with a nifty reverse layup off a rebound that made it 63-49.Texas couldnt get within single digits the rest of the way.McCarty led the Longhorns with 15 points.The Huskies trailed 17-15 after one quarter but took command in the second behind Nurse. She scored the first seven points of the quarter to give UConn a 22-17 advantage. Texas (2-4) got within 26-24 before the Huskies closed the half on a 13-6 spurt. Collier had the final seven points of that burst as UConn led 39-30 at the half.Texas lost second-leading scorer Ariel Atkins in the first quarter when she was hit in the head inadvertently. She came in averaging 13.6 points and had just four in six minutes.Were not sure yet, Texas coach Karen Aston said of the extent of the injury. That was obviously a difficult loss for us. ... So Im not sure of her status.JIMMY VThis is the sixth consecutive season that the Huskies have played in the game in honor of the former N.C. State mens coach, who died of cancer. Uconn has won all six of those games. They are 8-2 overall in the game.As a coach you obviously have so much respect for the way he handled an unbelievably difficult situation, Auriemma said. I hope we get invited to play in it every year. Wed do it every year if we could.TOUGH SCHEDULINGBoth Texas and UConn have faced top opponents this season. The difference is the Longhorns have struggled, going 0-4 against Top 25 teams. They lost to Stanford, Mississippi State, South Carolina and UConn. The Huskies have beaten Florida State, Baylor, DePaul and Texas.BIG PICTURETexas: The Longhorns didnt lose their fourth game of the season until March last year. ... McCarty moved into 10th place on the schools all-time list of 3-point shooters. She has 117.UConn: The two teams have played eight times, with the Huskies winning all the meetings, including in the last two NCAA Tournaments. ... Former NFL great Donovan McNabb was at the game. Hes the uncle of Nurse. ... This was the fourth year in a row that the Huskies have played a game at Mohegan Sun. The American Athletic Conference holds its tournament at the casino.UP NEXTTexas: After facing South Carolina and UConn back-to-back, the schedule doesnt get much easier with Tennessee waiting on Dec. 11. 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Argentina winger Ezequiel Lavezzi and France midfielder Blaise Matuidi scored, with star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic setting up both despite having a poor game by his high standards. Forward Eduardo gave Ajaccio the lead in the sixth minute after being set up by right winger Benjamin Andre, and the Corsican side looked comfortable in the first half, with the lively Johan Cavalli causing problems with his probing runs from midfield. Bob Feller Jersey . The catch: It needs a lot of money, and it needs it fast. PHILADELPHIA -- UConn was once again the overwhelming favorite to win the American Athletic Conference.Its not a huge surprise since the Huskies havent lost a game in the conference since joining in 2014. They are 63-0 against their conference opponents.Even though coach Geno Auriemma graduated three All-Americans, including three-time national player of the year Breanna Stewart, the Huskies were received 10 of 11 first-place votes in the preseason poll Monday at the AACs annual media day.Its great, but we dont worry about all the outside stuff and just focus on ourselves, UConn guard Kia Nurse said. There are clearly a lot of fun numbers around the program with win streaks and championships, but honestly we dont really talk about them.Nurse said she was honored to be chosen as the conferences preseason player of the year.To have accolades like that is awesome. You still have to prove yourself. Definitely its an honor and theres a long way to go. It might be a preview of whats to come in the season.UConn returns seven players from the team which finished 38-0 last season and won the schools fourth consecutive national championship.Temple was picked second and South Florida was projeected third in the conference.dddddddddddd USF garnered the other first-place vote since coaches cant vote for their own teams.Our first year we were somewhere in the middle in the preseason. To be able to get to a point where were preseason second means weve done a good job over the last two years building a better program, Temple coach Tonya Cardoza said.We need to make sure we stay together and are not paying attention to the rankings. They arent handing you No. 2, you have to work for it and do the things in practice it takes to get there. Our guys are hungry, they want something theyve never done before and thats make the NCAA Tournament.Nurse was joined on the preseason conference first team by teammate Katie Lou Samuelson, USFs Kitija Laska, Tulanes Kolby Morgan and Temples Alliya Butts and Feyonda Fitzgerald.The AAC has two new coaches with Katie Abrahamson-Henderson taking over at UCF. She led Albany to five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances out of America East. SMU is now led by former NBA player Travis Mays, who was an assistant at Texas. ' ' '