Spying a drum set in the band section before a game at South Florida, Connecticut forward Maya Moore wandered over and started thumping away. Drums, after all, have been a fascination since she was a 10-year-old in Jefferson City, Mo., where she launched "Maya's Mobile Car Wash" to pay for a set.

Pregame at Marquette, she scooped up three tennis balls and juggled -- behind the back and between the legs, for that matter.

Before the last home game this season, against Seton Hall, Moore and teammate Kaili McLaren sang the national anthem.

"I tell her, 'Yo, Maya -- you're the best player in the country, you're a straight A student, you sing, you play the drums, you juggle -- but you forget to switch on screens? How's that possible?' " Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma said in his office in February. "She laughs, the kids laugh. They think she's Superman, some sort of that, because there's probably nothing Maya can't do."

Auriemma has a few reasons to try to dispel that notion of Moore, the sophomore who was named women's player of the year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.

"I'm reluctant to set her up as infallible," said Auriemma, whose undefeated Huskies take on Stanford in a NCAA Tournament semifinal tomorrow at Scottrade Center. "Because then where do you go from there?

"There have to be things she struggles with. If there weren't, there'd be no more things for her to accomplish."

Moreover, Auriemma believes Moore is so serious-minded that he feels obliged to tease her.

"She's a perfectionist who screws up and does dumb stuff just enough that we can make fun of her," he said. "Because otherwise the kid wouldn't have any fun."

Assistant coach Clarissa Davis-Wrightsil has resigned after less than a year to return to her home state of Texas. In a statement, Davis Wrightsil said her mother has experienced health problems and she felt she needed to be closer to her family.

Coach C. Vivian Stringer is a likely inductee into the 2009 Hall of Fame, according to reports. The class will be announced Monday during the Final Four in Detroit. Stringer has amassed an 825-280 record over four decades, third on the career victories list after only Pat Summitt and Jody Conradt.

All-America senior guard Shavonte Zellous has been invited to take part in the WNBA draft along with 14 other top prospects. The draft will be Thursday in Secaucus, N.J., in the NBA Entertainment studios. The first round will be televised on ESPN2. Zellous could become the first Pitt player to be drafted by the WNBA. Former Panthers Marcedes Walker and Laine Selwyn played in the WNBA last season after signing as free agents.