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Message: [QUOTE="cjdd, post: 4896207, member: 12807"] Just for the record, there wasn't much distinction between what are now Division 1 schools and smaller schools back in the AIAW days during the regular season. For instance, Pearl Moore's Francis Marion team played against the University of South Carolina 11 times in her four seasons, with South Carolina holding a slim 6-5 advantage in those games. (The top teams in South Carolina across all classifications played a state tournament at the end of the regular season, but then the teams split into large-school and small-school for national tournaments.) South Carolina was strong enough to make the large-school AIAW regionals two of those years. Francis Marion made the small-school AIAW regionals all four years Pearl played and advanced deep into to the national tournament three of those years. Doing a quick scan of the Francis Marion schedules from the four years Pearl was playing, I came up with at least 70 games against schools that are now Division 1. Sure, she played against some small schools, but she scored a ton of her points against the bigger schools, too. And in many cases, small schools put more resources into women's sports than the big ones back then. [/QUOTE]