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Success is one of the hardest things to handle. We talk about that. Guys, I think are starting to understand, you're as good as your last game, all that stuff - and just go out and win the next. It's fascinating in sports to me: if you win a couple it just seems like you've never lost; if you lose one, it seems like you've never won. I think that our guys are starting to understand that, guys that have been here over the years where we've had maybe slow starts - and you hear maybe we should shut down our program - at the end no doubt we're going to the Final Four. You can't get caught up on that. You have to get caught into did we get better today? Did we improve in that drill? Are we a better team as a result of our practice today? Did we approach practice the right way today? And string some of those together so it becomes a habit. That's what we have to be concerned about.

You can count Washington Huskies men's basketball coach Lorenzo Romar - a Los Angeles native and former UCLA men's basketball assistant coach - among those who once considered UCLA's streak of 88 consecutive wins from 1971-1974 unbreakable.

"I never thought anyone, men or women, would come close to tying that record," said Romar, when asked about the #1 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team beating the #10 Ohio State Buckeyes 80-51 yesterday in the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden to tie UCLA's record at 88 games. "So it's pretty phenomenal that something like that happens."