Katie Lou Samuelson's shiner served as living proof of the tussle her UConn women's basketball team just emerged from with the NCAA Division I women's basketball record road winning streak still intact - barely.
"I think it looks pretty," Samuelson said with a laugh.
The Huskies' leading scorer was talking about the bruise that made it difficult for her to keep her left eye open and not the frenetic 40 minutes that had just elapsed.
There were times when I had flashbacks to last season's loss to Mississippi State watching UConn struggle to get into a flow offensively.