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OT- Uconn Women 94 pts at the half

huskeynut said:
Geno took off the full court pressure mid way in the 1st quarter. They were walking the ball up the court. Can't tell the young ladies to stop playing. By running their offense, they shredded St. Francis.
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The UConn bench out scored St Francis .
You don’t see that to often.
Geno’s bench is a top 10-20 women’s team maybe even higher.
There are probably 6 teams vaguely competitive that’s twice as many a 10-15 years ago
 
Horatio said:
Yeah but they lost last year. There's now a faint glimmer of hope.
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To mix metaphors, Women's College Basketball begins its at bat with an 0-2 count and the umpire knowing the bat is corked. There are legions of people who will never watch women's basketball. I've watched exactly one such game in my life and that was because I knew one of the players. The population of people who will even consider watching the sport is a small subset of sports fans.

And then they see this kind of monstrosity. It confirms every preconception that people have about the quality of the game.
 
BugsyCT said:
Didn't UConn play their bench most of the 2nd half?
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He started pulling the starters about 4 minutes into the 2nd half, and he played at least 3 reserves the rest of the way. Starters and 1st reserve didn't play in the 4th quarter.
2nd leading scorer in the country, who leads the nation in made 3s plays for SFU. They held her scoreless in the first half.
At half time, SFU had 7 assists. UConn had 3 players with 8 assists each. SFU had 7 rebounds total at the half. UConn had 4 players with 8 rebounds each at the half.
 
crewbear742 said:
To mix metaphors, Women's College Basketball begins its at bat with an 0-2 count and the umpire knowing the bat is corked. There are legions of people who will never watch women's basketball. I've watched exactly one such game in my life and that was because I knew one of the players. The population of people who will even consider watching the sport is a small subset of sports fans.

And then they see this kind of monstrosity. It confirms every preconception that people have about the quality of the game.
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It really should be a 28 team tournament with the top 4 seeds getting bi's. That's just where the game is at developmentally. The gulf between the top teams and the bottom is just stupid.
 
crewbear742 said:
To mix metaphors, Women's College Basketball begins its at bat with an 0-2 count and the umpire knowing the bat is corked. There are legions of people who will never watch women's basketball. I've watched exactly one such game in my life and that was because I knew one of the players. The population of people who will even consider watching the sport is a small subset of sports fans.

And then they see this kind of monstrosity. It confirms every preconception that people have about the quality of the game.
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The last time I checked the game is about winning not playing down to your competition. Does AL. play down to their competition so the other team can feel better about themselves?!
 
Swflhusky said:
The last time I checked the game is about winning not playing down to your competition. Does AL. play down to their competition so the other team can feel better about themselves?!
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They can play the game as they like. It makes no difference to me. The amount of attention I have paid to the 2018 Women's NCAA Tournament can be described as "Making a few posts on this thread". When this thread concludes, I will return to a state of benign neglect. I am only making two points.

1. The population of people who will even consider watching Women's basketball is very small.

2. Games that demonstrate the non- competitive nature of the sport will reduce that population even further.

This was a tournament game, for goodness sake. UConn could have conceivably scored 200 points in that game. That wasn't a legitimate competition.
 
crewbear742 said:
They can play the game as they like. It makes no difference to me. The amount of attention I have paid to the 2018 Women's NCAA Tournament can be described as "Making a few posts on this thread". When this thread concludes, I will return to a state of benign neglect. I am only making two points.

1. The population of people who will even consider watching Women's basketball is very small.

2. Games that demonstrate the non- competitive nature of the sport will reduce that population even further.

This was a tournament game, for goodness sake. UConn could have conceivably scored 200 points in that game. That wasn't a legitimate competition.
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That game will not deter fans of the sport..and tourney attendance was up this year at most sites...fans know this score is not relevant and Uconn is still beatable. Both Texas and ND had double digit leads on Uconn before the huskies came back and won. They’re struggle with bigs because they’re not very. It will be an interesting tourney starting in Albany. To argue fans won’t watch because Uconn pounded a bad team, 16 seed that had an automatic bid is ridiculous.
 
I rarely get to see a woman's game.But when I do I enjoy it. Nice to see how they play together. They are taught well. Thought I read na article just last week where a HS team demolished another team like 96-6. Coach left in his starters. It was main street news.

What I would like is our girls crushing Miss St. if they don't get upset early. A score of 99-6 in our favor would sit just right for me.
 
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When UConn knocks off Quinnipiac on Monday, that will be 25 straight Sweet Sixteens. Tennessee got there 27 consecutive times. A mix of amazing and a lack of parity.
 
And another stat to drive some posters crazy:

St. Francis scored only 6 points from the 7 minutes mark of the 3rd quarter to the end of the game!. Only 4 points in the entire 4th quarter. UConn's bench held St. Francis to 4 points.
 
crewbear742 said:
They can play the game as they like. It makes no difference to me. The amount of attention I have paid to the 2018 Women's NCAA Tournament can be described as "Making a few posts on this thread". When this thread concludes, I will return to a state of benign neglect. I am only making two points.
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Almost as insufferable as someone coming along and posting in whatever forum on a thread about the best TV shows, like The Wire and GOT, etc., and some takes the time to post about how they don't even OWN a TV. How gauche. Yeah, feel free to not expend even THIS much effort on women's basketball in the future. I have no idea why you think people with an opinion about the topic are interested in why you think they're stupid.
 
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Although nowhere near as talented, I thought the UMBC men played a lot like the women huskies. Of course the results were much different but the movement and intensity were similar
 
RichZ said:
He started pulling the starters about 4 minutes into the 2nd half, and he played at least 3 reserves the rest of the way. Starters and 1st reserve didn't play in the 4th quarter.
2nd leading scorer in the country, who leads the nation in made 3s plays for SFU. They held her scoreless in the first half.
At half time, SFU had 7 assists. UConn had 3 players with 8 assists each. SFU had 7 rebounds total at the half. UConn had 4 players with 8 rebounds each at the half.
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So you're saying it was close until the 4th quarter?
 
intlzncster said:
It really should be a 28 team tournament with the top 4 seeds getting bi's. That's just where the game is at developmentally. The gulf between the top teams and the bottom is just stupid.
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Its fine the way it is if it means that you have blowouts then so be it.
 
crewbear742 said:
And people wonder why women's basketball is invisible outside of Connecticut. There is a reason that it shows up on ESPN2 across from the NFL.
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Yeah, it's called counter-programming.
 
crewbear742 said:
And people wonder why women's basketball is invisible outside of Connecticut. There is a reason that it shows up on ESPN2 across from the NFL.
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Except, of course, that it isn't. Geno recruits nationally (well, worldwide really.) UConn is a household name, for those who are interested in WBB across the country. UConn sets attendance records for many, if not most, of the schools it travels to. And, if you ever attend a woman's AAU tournament, I guarantee that you will hear "UConn" or "Connecticut" shouted out as play names.

UConn WBB is far from invisible outside of Connecticut. It is the marquee brand of the sport.
 
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Scoe said:
Its fine the way it is if it means that you have blowouts then so be it.
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I don't care either way, was just inferring what would give a semblence of competitive matchups.
 
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If Vegas carried a line tonight, what would the money line be? Lay 20K on UConn to win 10 cents?
Pretty much. Spread -60?
 
Alum86 said:
If Vegas carried a line tonight, what would the money line be? Lay 20K on UConn to win 10 cents?
Pretty much. Spread -60?
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It was 37. QU covered wasy.
 
uconnfan68 said:
The women had a #16 beat a #1 long before it happened for the men.
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C'mon...that's because that Stanford team was decimated by injuries. Not quite the same as what we just witnessed.
 
Did I hear correctly that St Francis attempted 57 3-pointers. If that’s the case, what’s the debate. The plan backfired in a big way. They took a shot - and missed...and missed...and...
 
intlzncster said:
I don't care either way, was just inferring what would give a semblence of competitive matchups.
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I get what your saying but at least those teams have a shot and thats all you can ask for, and we see 3 high seeds going down right now on their home court and its too bad for QU they had to play Uconn.
 
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