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Message: [QUOTE="Watchdog, post: 3489231, member: 10325"] I know UConn isn't universally loved and that's what makes it special, like the Yankees and Patriots, but ESPN hardly praises and fawns over UConn all the time. Before you give them a pass, consider the status of women's basketball nationwide today and UConn's role in raising the profile of the sport while also elevating the rest of the Big East, making it the best in the country until the breakup. Maybe it's because I've always enjoyed learning about history, but I think they could have done much more for women's basketball if they put some effort into it. With the tournament cancelled, they could have broadcast a series of games over the next few weeks, from the early days before the sport was included in the NCAA to the present, that would have shown the growth of the sport to what it is today. Instead they chose to do low cost replays of four or five games that few, other than Mississippi St, Notre Dame and Louisville fans, would likely watch again. How hard would it have been to pull together a couple people (Rebecca Lobo and Andy Landers come to mind) in the studio to do an overview of the sport's growth and announce the schedule of games that they'll be broadcasting that contributed to that growth? They have nothing else to do right now. Finally, ESPN's "Requiem for the Big East" was pretty telling. ESPN also owes much of its success in becoming the dominant sports network today to its contract featuring Big East men's basketball early in the network's life, especially the Big Monday games and yet, in that "requiem", they nearly totally ignored UConn. They told us how Georgetown dominated the league, with six championships in the first ten years, praised Syracuse for winning four games in four days to win the league tournament, but hardly mentioned the team that dominated the league in the last 21 years, tieing Georgetown with seven league championships, while winning as many national titles as all the other members combined............and winning five games in five days. I rest both my paranoia and my case. [/QUOTE]

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