Motivation by miscues will not be performed by BYU women's basketball coach Jeff Judkins, whose players spent Monday preparing for tonight's rematch against a very major program.

Connecticut -- more commonly known as UConn -- brings a No. 1-ranked team to the Marriott Center for a 7 p.m. tipoff.

Judkins told his director of basketball operations to produce a game-preparation tape that focused solely on good things. How many could there possibly be from last year's 80-34 loss?

Judkins says enough to make his team feel good about itself, like it has a chance.

"All positive. They will see good things," Judkins said of how he'd spend the film portion of yesterday's practice. "The men's side, you can be more negative; that motivates players. The women's side -- and a lot of it depends on your team -- there's certain girls I can be hard on. But the majority of my team this year, I've got to have a more positive attitude and let them see the good things in life. I think they respond better that way."

Shawnee Slade, a senior captain, had a team-high 11 points Nov. 29 of last year.

Coriann Wood, then a freshman, battled with eight points and five rebounds off the bench.

Whatever Judkins shows of review will most likely come from the second half. BYU was outscored just 38-23, compared to 42-11 in the first 20 minutes.

The school is selling $1 tickets to adults. Everyone else -- students and children -- is free.

The program wants everyone to show up to see the highest-ranked women's team to ever play in Provo. Judkins now has to hope his team is also in attendance.

"The biggest thing we have to do with Connecticut, is we cannot let them get easy baskets off turnovers," Judkins said. "We did a good job of guarding them when they had to walk the ball up. A lot of people think their team is all about offense. Connecticut's game is their defense...they're good in the post, they take all of the middle away. They're athletic at the wings and can lock into you. It wasn't their offense, it was their defensive presence. We couldn't get to the basket."

The Cougars have won their last two games since what appeared to be a crushing series of losses -- a season-opener at Portland State, plus another ACL injury for starting point guard Haley Hall that likely ended her career.

Slade points out BYU saw so much adversity last year -- losing Hall, plus a losing record among other issues -- that the team isn't dead. Rather, stronger.

"We just have to worry about ourselves, and not get psyched out. I look at it that we have nothing to lose, everything to gain. It's an amazing opportunity that UConn is coming to play us here," Slade said. "We just need to go play. We can't run from it like last year."

That'll be easier said than done. The Huskies, 3-0 this year, are winning by an average of 34 points. The five-time national champions return first-team all-America sophomore Maya Moore (likely Slade's defensive challenge). And, of course, there's legendary head coach Geno Auriemma. Judkins likens him to former UCLA coach John Wooden.

This game has been about six years in the making. Auriemma grew up a Boston Celtics fan and Judkins once played for them -- a very nice conversation starter.

Judkins said he doesn't worry about fans showing up to his arena to focus on UConn.

The eighth-year coach knows he's fortunate to have such an opportunity at BYU. Football (playing Notre Dame) and men's basketball (North Carolina, UCLA) have recently played their sports' royalty. Getting a chance on the home floor is a special perk for the Cougars.

Judkins said after last year's opportunity, which stuck with BYU negatively all season, he briefly figured that the Huskies would at some point beg out of the rare trip west.

"I thought (Auriemma) might...I almost thought, hey, pay us and not come. We'll get somebody else," Judkins said. "But then I thought, that's not fair. I knew we'd go back there (last season) and it would be hard. I knew that. What I was waiting for was this."

It'll be an unusual atmosphere on several levels. The largest crowd to see a BYU women's game was last year's blowout loss to Utah, which drew nearly 7,000 spectators. UConn will bring three newspaper beat writers, plus a radio team and a television crew that will broadcast the game for Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network. Known as CPTV, it shows most of the games which aren't picked up by ESPN.

BYU (2-1) vs. No. 1 UConn (3-0)

7 p.m., Marriott Center

Radio: Audio streaming (A link is available by going to http://www.byucougars.com/basketball_w/)

TV: BYU-TV

Tip-ins: All students from any institution, and children get in free. Adults get in for $1. Live Band. Acrobatic Dunking Team. Prizes will be given out at every time-out. (IPods, BYU apparel, Papa John's Pizzas, tickets to the men's game against Wake Forest). Cougarettes. Cheerleaders. Cosmo. NCAA "Pack the House Night."