The University of Connecticut women's college basketball team is definitely on a roll. Seventy straight victories is nothing to sneeze at, that's for sure.
However, a couple of things come to mind – one serious and one not so serious.
• Wouldn't you hate to be on the team that eventually loses? UConn's coach is known for a large ego than for his grace. Something tells me a lot of paint might fly off the walls in the locker room when the streak ends.
• What does a 70-game winning streak say about the level of play in the collegiate women's game? That was the question that the boss, Kevin Denke, posed this morning. And the answer is rather obvious ...
For the most part, the women's game is below the rim. That means a heavy reliance on such facets of the game as passing, setting screens, running plays – all the things we learned a long time ago and that aren't used very often. That's part of what makes the women's game somewhat better than the men's. But a 70-game winning streak doesn't – or shouldn't – do much for anyone involved in the sport.
Should it?
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Did anyone complain when UCLA was winning 7 straight NCAA titles? I think this is good for Woman's B-ball, it gives all the other colleges something to shoot for. (pardon the pun) As for the Woman's game being better...three words I THINK NOT!
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