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Message: [QUOTE="CamrnCrz1974, post: 2663515, member: 1052"] With all due respect, [USER=7047]@nyfanofwbb[/USER] , I understand that you may be tired of hearing/reading about the loss, but it was one of the four biggest upsets in the last 20 years of the women's NCAAT (1998 Harvard over Stanford, 1999 Duke over TN, 2013 Louisville over Baylor). It was an overtime game. It ended on a last-second shot. And it ended UConn's record streak of 111 consecutive wins. Imagine how the Kentucky fans feel about having to relive Christian Laettner's game-winning shot (from the 1992 East Regional Final) every March. It is replayed over and over again and has been for the last 26 years, as it was the greatest finish to one of the most amazing men's college basketball games ever played. Imagine every US Open seeing Serena Williams lose to Roberta Vinci, denying the GOAT's quest for the calendar-year Grand Slam. UConn has achieved greatness and rarified air. All season, ESPN was posting articles about the win streak, with a running tracker of games. UConn's dominance was featured very prominently and discussed not just in women's basketball circles, but among the sports talk radio, talking heads shows, etc. It became a national sports issue, not just a women's basketball issue. The winning streak was in another stratosphere, given how amazing it was. No team had ever won 4 titles until UConn did it, and UConn was in the Final Four going for a 5th title, until MS won on a last-second shot in overtime. That shot garnered a lot more attention to women's basketball, which can only grow the sport. And the fact that both MS State and UConn are back in the Final Four with the potential to meet for the championship in a rematch makes it even more of a story. I think there is a difference between "beating a dead horse" and recognizing that when any athlete or team achieves greatness, if there is an upset or a loss, it only magnifies the initial achievement, recognizing it for the amazing accomplishment that it was and the Herculean effort it took to topple UConn (which, I believe, is [USER=1772]@Bigpetunia[/USER] 's point). [/QUOTE]

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