Tina Charles added 15 points and 17 rebounds for the Huskies, who won their second straight Big East regular season championship and 13th in the last 15 seasons.

With the victory Connecticut (29-1, 15-1) earned the top seed in the conference tournament that starts Saturday. Rutgers (24-5, 14-2) will be the No. 2 seed. Both teams have first-round byes and don't play until the quarterfinals on Sunday.

With Connecticut leading by two points early in the second half, Charles took over. She scored six points during a 10-2 run that extended the lead to 44-34 with 10:49 left. It was Charles' 14th double-double of the season.

Rutgers cut the deficit to six on Matee Ajavon's free throws, but Montgomery answered with a 3-pointer to start a 22-8 spurt to close the game. Montgomery scored 12 points during the run.

The Huskies got a scare when Moore went down when she was fouled hard by Epiphanny Prince. Moore got up and went to the sideline stretching her back. With the Huskies enjoying a big lead, she did not return to the game.

Essence Carson led Rutgers with 15 points. Prince, who scored a career-high 33 points in the first meeting between the teams, was held to just five points. She was scoreless in the first half as the Huskies were constantly hounding her all over the court. She hit her first basket on a jumper 11/2 minutes into the second half.

Moore broke the UConn freshman scoring record 41/2 minutes into the game, hitting a pullup jumper. She passed Svetlana Abrosimova's mark of 538 points set in 1998. Moore has scored in double figures in all 30 games this season.

Rutger's coach C. Vivian Stringer has been impressed with Moore from the start, calling her the "best player over the next decade."

Moore got into early foul trouble in the first meeting that saw Rutgers hand Connecticut its only loss of the season on Feb. 5. The Scarlet Knights rallied from a nine-point halftime deficit to beat the Huskies 73-71.

She had no such trouble on Monday night. Moore scored eight of Connecticut's first 10 points and started 5-for-6 from the field. Leading by four midway through the first half, the Huskies used an 11-4 run to take a 28-17 with 4 minutes left.

Rutgers scored the next six points to close to 28-23 at the half. UConn could have had a much bigger lead, but the Huskies were just 2-for-9 from the free throw line in the first half.

With the victory, Geno Auriemma became the 14th Division I women's coach to reach 650 victories. Connecticut, which has won 24 straight home games -- the longest streak in the nation -- barely avoided an upset on Saturday, rallying from a 17-point second half deficit to beat DePaul 77-76.

The Huskies lead the all-time series with Rutgers 21-6, but the Scarlet Knights have won four of the last seven meetings.