Triangle teams bottom out

[HuskyNan]

Ouch.

From the trendsetting tenure of Kay Yow at N.C. State to North Carolina’s three Final Fours and national title under Sylvia Hatchell to Duke’s late-’90s ascendance under Gail Goestenkors, these three programs sat at or near the epicenter of the sport for a long, long time. Decades.

And now? Women’s basketball in the Triangle has reached maximum irrelevancy.

Women’s basketball in the Triangle bottoms out

 

[msf22b]

Good Piece.

Except this line:
Made his program the default destination for every elite American player

It must have seen like it the last couple of years, but a prudent observer shouldn't make that claim today.

 

[CONNMAN98]

I was beginning to wonder why we needed another story on the problems of the Knicks!

 

[UcMiami]

Interesting piece. And in its own way a sign of the growth of WCBB - that newspapers care enough and that their readers care enough about the sport to get a column lamenting a decline in relevance.

 

[Vowelguy]

lol

The arrival in the ACC of powerful programs like Notre Dame and Syracuse and Louisville hasn’t helped,​

Syracuse was hardly a "powerful program" 6 months ago, let alone when it joined the ACC. (And debatable whether it is even "powerful" now, though no doubt on the upswing.)

 

[bramos]

Good Piece.

Except this line:
Made his program the default destination for every elite American player

It must have seen like it the last couple of years, but a prudent observer shouldn't make that claim today.

The line was referring to Geno.

 

[ThisJustIn]

The line was referring to Geno.

Exactly. Geno's not been racking up "every elite American player..."