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[QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2697203, member: 591"]
The elephant in the room being that very few schools (out of 350ish D1) take WBB particularly seriously.  Any number of the P5 schools make the appearance of caring (a few don't even do that), but if you get right down to it, they are mostly tossing (some) money at the coach and "hoping" they can generate a bit of success, while other improvements, like facilities, are byproducts of improved men's facilities.  And they do that much just to remain respectable among their peers.

Unfortunately, since WBB is a money loser and not "overly" popular in most places, I don't expect that to change.  And since non of the American teams have a ghost of a chance of competing with UConn (I mean, the number of teams in D1 that have a chance of competing is pretty minimal) they can upgrade without being competitive.

Think about the oBE - who was really competitive with UConn?  Rutgers and Notre Dame (in some years, on and off); a few other individual games could be "tough", but it wasn't really most of them.  Most of the oBE teams were better than the American teams, for sure, but lets not over-romanticize how they compared, game in and game out, with UConn.
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