'It's buzzin': Aaliyah Edwards, UConn set for showdown against TMU in Toronto

Don't call it an exhibition.

No. 17 UConn is headed to Canada for a game Wednesday against Toronto Metropolitan University, whose women's basketball team is tied atop the U Sports standings at 10-0.

Rick Nixon, a spokesman for the NCAA, said the game will be recognized as a regular-season contest and all the statistics will count under the organizations' rules involving "outside competitions." The only caveat, he said, it that because TMU is not an NCAA Division I opponent, a win or a loss won't be calculated in UConn's NET rankings for consideration in postseason seeding.

The game was scheduled as part of a tradition at Connecticut in which UConn coach Geno Auriemma tries to give his players from out of state at least one "homecoming" game in their careers at a school near their hometown.

OH CANADA