Wonderful description: paint dry …love it.
Hate that they have to play against such a team, in such an environment.
What can be done?
Other than a najor conference invite, are there any possibilities?
Could the woman's BB program go indie?
Maybe not next season, but the season after.
Wouldn't it be more fun playing the Gonzaga's and St. Mary's of the world
Women's BB at UCONN will never go independent. The only teams or schools that play an independent schedule are ones that can command their own TV network deal. Considering that ESPN orchestrated what's happened to UCONN, it's not very likely they're interested in launching the UCONN Network any time soon. That's for Texas, BYU and Notre Lame, and even those schools, with the exception of football in the latter two school's cases, still have to continue playing in conferences for the rest of their athletic teams.
UCONN has to be invited to join a Power 5 conference to stop this from becoming our standard diet of conference opponents for every season into the forseeable future. Over time the rest of the conference might improve, if only to attempt to compete or stay within 20 points of UCONN, but that's about all you're going to see, if that. It did happen in the Big East over time.