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Message: [QUOTE="CamrnCrz1974, post: 3483594, member: 1052"] They were showing games as part of the "Best of College Basketball" from recent years. One game shown was the men's ACCT Championship between UNC and Duke from 2019 -- this was the game shown directly before UCONN-MSST. But the game (UCONN/MSST) was in a Final Four. It featured a buzzer-beating shot in overtime. It ended the record 111-game winning streak. It ended the season for the four-time defending champions (and a four-peat had never been accomplished before in women's NCAAT history). It garnered huge ratings for women's college hoops at the time (1.75 share, 2.8 million viewers). It is a classic game, for all of these reasons. It is not ESPN "going out of their way" to show games in which UConn loses. And it was shown, like other classic games. Just as an example, Thursday's slate will feature huge upsets from 2019-20 on the men's side -- Wofford vs. UNC and Evansville vs. Kentucky. When you are a fan of the best program in history, a game that involves a huge upset on a last second shot in overtime is going to be considered a classic. Yes, it stings (ask Kentucky's men's fans how it feels every time Christian Laettner's shot from the 1992 Elite Eight is shown). But it hardly means ESPN is somehow biased against UConn or intentionally seeking to air games in which UConn lost. Personally, I am happy that espn2 aired the rebroadcast of women's basketball game (as opposed to another men's CBB game) during prime time. [/QUOTE]

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