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Message: [QUOTE="tomcat, post: 2103678, member: 961"] Could not disagree more. Yes, there is a top group -- sometimes it's five, sometimes eight, with UConn generally at the top. But we are seeing teams like Quinnipiac beat teams they aren't supposed to. We see FGCU, a good team in a weak conference, take Miami to the wire (and if the refs had not screwed them, they would have won). New Mexico State, for cryin' out loud, held Stanford to a victory of less than 10 points. Yesterday, Elon loses by only 7 against a much higher-ranked team. And Belmont, of all teams, loses by only three against Kentucky. My point: These kinds of things, which are happening regularly now, almost never used to happen at all. In other words, the women's ability to upset is increasingly looking like the men's. And that, IMHO, is a move toward parity. Complete parity will come later, when a superstar chooses Washington, say, instead of UConn or SC or TN, and takes a couple of 4-Star players with her. That's when a team like Washington wins it all and establishes a tradition of landing and developing fine players. I'm guessing that happens within 4-5 years. [/QUOTE]