All this rot about how UConn's dominance is bad for wcbb. I was a youth in the era of the Wooden UCLA teams. I was old enough to be aware that mcbb had been a merely regional, second-rate attraction prior to the Wooden years, that it was UCLA that made the sport glamorous and important nationally. Up until that time the NCAA champuionship itself wasn't definitive, in those days the NIT champs were often as good or better, certainly often more popular. It was the Wooden teams that put an end to those antediluvian aspects, and brought the game into the modern era. I see the UConn dominance inwcbb today as similar to the Wooden mcbb UCLA teams. The era of dominance will peak and pass, it's a natural course. But the emergence of a dominant program, whether UConn today, UCLA in the 60s, or even Notre Dame football in the Knute Rockne era seems to be a natural and healthy part of the cycle of the emergence of a college sport onto the national stage.
