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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3366566, member: 730"] When I think "challenging schedule" my thoughts are of men's basketball. In the 2011 season UConn was 5-7 in their last dozen Big East games and was the 9 seed in the conference tournament. They won the tournament and won the national title. That is what I call a competitve conference, night in and night out. For years I have had discussions with fans of different P5 conferences and it's been my position that there are no "power conferences" in women's basketball. What there are are several conferences with 2 or 3 outstanding teams, a few that fall into the 30-50 category and then a bunch of mediocrity and downright bad programs. It's largely a function of the lack of broad talent and the lack of good coaching in HS. The P5 conferences are highly challenging for the mid range teams but not for the elite teams. Now for most wcbb teams winning a conference title is a big deal. But when one of, if not the best recruit in the country, is looking for competition there is no program that year in and year out offers when they will get at UConn, because the only real challenges over the course of the season, other than 3 or 4 games, comes in the NCAA E8 and FF. And that has been where UConn has lived for decades. [/QUOTE]