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Message: [QUOTE="Longtime fan, post: 2696717, member: 7093"] Right on point, Husky N. It is almost as though this poster just signed on. Because the pathetic state of AAC women's basketball has been a known weakness since day one. And, unless there are outside forces working to change women BB conference alignments ( and I don't think there are any ), or UCONN football soars to the national championship ( still laughing ), the only hope for change is that the AAC conference members " up their games." They have to get better coaches and players so that inter conference contests are worth watching. The frustrating thing is; other than South Florida, not a single university in the conference has made meaningful progress in women's basketball since the conference was formed. How does a wealthy, sports-oriented university, like SMU remain so awful? Texas is a hot bed ( sorry ) for great women BB players. They can't get any of them? UCONN does the best it can to treat their conference games as though they were important learning experiences, and to keep their focus on fine-tuning their system. But we all know UCONN's practices are more challenging than any of these games. It is embarrassing and non-productive, for sure. But, as you say, what to do? As an extreme, I think UCONN should play some of these games with bench players only. Use the starters only at critical moments, if there are any. At least they would be " fresh" for the Big Dance. Just dreaming. [/QUOTE]