UConn Women 11 Straight Final 4s!
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take the best boys high school basketball team not even for a state but for a region of a state and they would beat all eleven of those teams. Such a boring sport to watch
Impressive indeed. I have always wondered what Geno would be able to do in men's hoops. Less recruiting competition for Geno in the women's game. He's been getting the best of the best for decades now. The only time he really had any consistent competition was from Pat Summitt.
I'm all for man > women but your post is horseshit.
Its not impressive. Its a perfect storm of UConn being the one school to put big time resources into Women's basketball, a sport with a small talent pool, and a massive nationwide sports station down the road that happens to employ a ton of UConn alumni to be the hype machine to push the top tier of the small talent pool into one program. Geno is just the guy who gets to enjoy the benefits of neverending job security and a nice payday with minimal stress since no one will ever catch UConn at this point.
Would actually bet money that every region winner in the state of Kentucky would beat the uconn women team.
sorry but I don't give him any props. When you recruit 3 of the top 5 high school players on a yearly basis you should be in the F4 every single year. Not an impressive achievement at all in my eyes.
Meh, isn't recruiting part of the job?
Every coach is going after the best players, then in turn, winning games.
I saw a stat last year which showed that something like 90% of their games are decided by 20 points or greater.
Going out and landing the top 3-4 high school players EVERY YEAR has broken the women's game. I'm completely unimpressed when they win because they should win every single game they play by 20 points.
So, Wooden's streak after the 4th wasn't impressive? Dynasty is dynasty no matter the sport!
might as well since that determines the women's champ almost every year.
Keep in mind we're not talking one and dones so when he lands the #1 player in the country every year he gets that player for several seasons. His teams are more loaded than any men's team by far.
Sham sport.
Not when you are the only program that is considered noteworthy in your sport, and the only one that gets any type of exposure. As a women's player you have more notoriety as a UConn player than whatever you do at the next level. To say UConn has the inside track every year in women's basketball recruiting is an understatement. Compound that with the fact that women's basketball does not have early departures, and a weak talent pool outside of the top 1% recruits that will fill the rosters of the other 300+ teams and you get the talent disparity that is seen in women's basketball.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.dail...team-suffer-5-2-loss-FC-Dallas-U-15-boys.html
Well, here’s what happened when the best women’s soccer team in the world played a bunch of boys under the age of 15. There’s other similar stories out there in the sport of soccer.
I’ve read numerous stories about CBB women’s teams playing guys in the rec center and being destroyed. Like they can’t even get a shot off destroyed. Many are probably fabricated but I believe there is some truth to it. There’s probably hundreds of boys high school teams that would crush UCONN’s women’s basketball.
Well, here’s what happened when the best women’s soccer team in the world played a bunch of boys under the age of 15. There’s other similar stories out there in the sport of soccer.
I’ve read numerous stories about CBB women’s teams playing guys in the rec center and being destroyed. Like they can’t even get a shot off destroyed. Many are probably fabricated but I believe there is some truth to it. There’s probably hundreds of boys high school teams that would crush UCONN’s women’s basketball.
What is everyone’s point? I feel like women’s basketball is like the world compared to the Dream Team in ‘92. It hasn’t caught up yet and the resources just aren’t there. It’s also super boring to watch with no dunks, lobs, or much athleticism. How can no one just beat them randomly? How have they completely taken luck out of the equation? Even UCLA got beat sometimes in the regular season. Kentucky had a similar type team and also randomly lost in 2015 as did UNLV in ‘91. What a bizarre sport.
I actually think this is true. I know it sounds like being an asshole, but the best high school boys can run and jump in ways that women just can't.
Yes. Somewhat. I think there is some sort of math there that'd justify that after some invariable amount of momentum that sustaining disproportionate success is much easier thus less impressive. Arguably it's more indicative of systemic flaws preventing competition. Not to take away from Auriemma. He created the momentum.
I do think Woodens is more impressive in that the elite female athletes are so much greater than their peers than male athletes. There is just so much more separation between the top female athletes and the rest. With men’s sports, even the below elite guys can dunk and/or run by you if you f@ck up an assignment. Not so with women’s sports.
So yeah...if you pick up 3 of the top 5 or 6 male athletes every year, you will have a HUGE advantage, but somebody will eventually beat you. Gene though could do this for the next 30 years..
women don't have to deal with 7'+ centers either. its rare to find a 6'5 woman center. forget HS kids even lower level mid majors will give these UConn women fits.
sorry but the numbers between men and women's top athletes is too great. my opinion is for every top female BB player there are 5 male BB players that are just as good.
but another poster brought up a very important point. there are no one n done players in women's BB and they stay with the team for 4 years, this is what made Wooden's teams so good. they stayed the full 4 years and they couldn't play as FR.
think about that for a minute, Kareem staying all 4 years, no way that happens today.
Jordan stayed all 4 years at UNC, also women have more scholarship players than the men do. there are more women content to ride the pine waiting for their turn unlike the men that leave at the drop of the hat for whatever reason real or made up.
sorry but the numbers between men and women's top athletes is too great. my opinion is for every top female BB player there are 5 male BB players that are just as good.
but another poster brought up a very important point. there are no one n done players in women's BB and they stay with the team for 4 years, this is what made Wooden's teams so good. they stayed the full 4 years and they couldn't play as FR.
think about that for a minute, Kareem staying all 4 years, no way that happens today.
Jordan stayed all 4 years at UNC, also women have more scholarship players than the men do. there are more women content to ride the pine waiting for their turn unlike the men that leave at the drop of the hat for whatever reason real or made up.
The dismissal of what UConn's women does has always sort of mystified me; they move with clockwork precision without the ball and any purist has to marvel at their spacing and cuts. They don't out talent people so much as they execute them into submission. Constant open shots off of ball movement and a shot chart that has made shots from multiple players from 16-19 feet . You simply don't see anything remotely resembling their shooting percentage from 15 feet out to the arc in the men's game.
Yeah I remember this being talked about 6 months ago. Something like if the 1200th ranked man in the world played her they’d win 6-1, 6-1, 6-0?
It’s amazing what you can do with a sport when you remove almost all athleticism from the game.
At what point did this become men vs women? The games are different. It does not make the actions any less impressive
Yes it does when there are only 5 players head and shoulders above everyone else and atleast 4 go to the same program every year. The sport is a joke and its an insult to the men's game when ESPN tries to cross compare Geno Auriemma's or Pat Summitt's accomplishments with the men's coaches. You might as well scour the country for an undefeated girls rec league coach and put them up there with the greats with that logic.
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