Orlando, Fla. — Perhaps Geno Auriemma was still feeling under the weather or maybe he spent a little too much time in the sun upon his UConn women's basketball team's arrival in the Sunshine State, but on Friday he found himself asking the top-ranked Huskies a question about "the streak."

Anybody who has been around UConn's Hall of Fame coach realizes how much he hates discussing winning streaks or the current run of dominance. Auriemma is more about the process than he is taking time to ponder the current state of affairs.

But there he was wondering if his team was fired up about the prospect of potentially breaking the NCAA Division I basketball record winning streak of 90 games set by the Huskies when Maya Moore was the program's resident superstar.

UConn heads into Sunday's game at Central Florida (1 p.m., SNY) with an 87-game winning streak. The Huskies can match the 88-game streak of the UCLA men's basketball team established from 1971-74. With his players informing him that they do indeed want to set the mark, he is going to do his best to embrace this current run of victories as the Huskies could be two weeks away from record-breaking win No. 91 in a row.

"Me, CD (associate head coach Chris Dailey) and those other guys, we have already lived a dream that people have the first time that people went through this," Auriemma said after Saturday's practice on one of UCF's practice courts. "What we are living now is something you can't even dream, that if you were dreaming this, not only is it not possible, you shouldn't even be allowed to dream this. Yet, here we are living it and how do you come to grips with that."

UConn had a 10-point lead with 6 1/2 minutes to play in the last game the team lost before Stanford rallied for an 88-86 overtime win on Nov. 17, 2014. If the Huskies finished the deal that night, the UCF game could be for win No. 135 in a row.

Instead, the Huskies could match the record 90-game streak on Jan. 10 when they host South Florida at the XL Center.

"It is pretty amazing what we are doing, we are trying to accomplish it," said senior guard Saniya Chong, who along with Kia Nurse is the only current UConn player to have seen action in a game the Huskies lost.

UConn's streak was tested on a few occasions as the Huskies played seven teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 in the first 12 games, the most ever at UConn through the first two months of the season. Only two teams currently ranked are on the schedule for UConn's final 17 regular-season games — No. 23 South Florida (twice) and No. 6 South Carolina (Feb. 13).

The challenge now is for the Huskies to avoid the temptation to play down to the competition with 14 games left against unranked teams.

"The question is how do you maintain that when you are playing teams that aren't quite at that level," Auriemma said. "Well, you have to appeal to the players that this is the big picture. Think about this, everything that we have accomplished since Nov. 14 with one bad two-week period, all of that could be washed away. Everything we did gets taken away from us if we have a two-week period where we play lousy and lose a couple of games.

"If you want that accomplishment that we have to really mean something, you need to validate it every day from here on in. It takes a little bit of maturity and I worry about that part of it but I am starting to worry less about whether or not we'll keep our focus than I did November 14."