Women's NCAA Tournament
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UConn won the tourney games by like a combined 239 points if my quick in my head math was right. That is nearly a 40 point win margin... In the damn NCAA tournament. How exciting. Didn't have a single game this year in single digits that I could see. Had 2 that were 10 point victories. Is there that few of quality players in women's bball?
I would go back to what Geno said in an interview...women's players don't practice (all the "good" ones do is play games on traveling teams) which leads to a lack of skill when it comes to the fine details of the game. That is a huge detriment to developing the type of players needed to fill rosters in D1.
I think there is a bigger gap in Women's players with elite talent (a la britney griner, candance parker, etc.) and their average d1 counterpart than there is in mens. Griner reminded me of watching Wilt Chamberlain play on espn classic, in that he just imposed his will on folks.
no early entry for pros in women's game. If the Duke's and Kentucky's of the world kept their players for all four years they would dominate the men's game.
Congrats to UCONN, but man, was that a pointless tournament or what? Watched about 10 seconds last night to see that Syracuse was down 25 in the second half. It's boring and not entertaining to sit through. And this is coming from a long-time WBB fan. There was ZERO buzz about the women's tournament this year, aside from the sports pundits telling me how much I should love Connecticut. What I do find interesting is that UCONN wasn't even selling out their home arena for most games. Even THEIR fans are bored.
He has some interesting observations in this article. It's long but I found it interesting.
http://www.ncaa.org/static/champion/have-i-got-your-attention-yet/
Great read Boxster! Maybe changed my opinion of Geno a little, but as the article mentions, he grates on a lot of people - and I'm of the opinion that he does it intentionally. But below are his thoughts about a topic that has been discussed many times on this board.
"Auriemma believes the collegiate women’s basketball game has become too physical.What is entertaining about every time someone moves, you grab them; every time they cut, you punch them; every time someone shoots, they get cracked?” Auriemma said. “We have to allow our players to show off their skills. They can cut, pass and shoot. It is kind of a throwback to (the 1986 movie) ‘Hoosiers.’”
"Auriemma believes the collegiate women’s basketball game has become too physical.What is entertaining about every time someone moves, you grab them; every time they cut, you punch them; every time someone shoots, they get cracked?” Auriemma said. “We have to allow our players to show off their skills. They can cut, pass and shoot. It is kind of a throwback to (the 1986 movie) ‘Hoosiers.’”
I don't know that they'd necessarily dominate, but that is probably the single biggest factor. Others:
*15 scholarships available in WBB vs 13 in MBB
*WBB players are more likely to accept being a role player on a great team vs being a star on an average to good team. Some of that is because of no huge NBA contracts to look forward to, and some is likely a general gender personality difference.
*Smaller pool of players to draw from (fewer girls in sports overall for a wide variety of reasons) means the truly great players are a lot less common.
The only other thing I would add is degrees matter much more to girls because that is their likely future. So Stanford, Duke, Notre Dames of the world have a leg up there too.
...along with winning, the head coach, and the team unity and environment. UConn is a nice school, but not up with those schools you listed. Neither is Baylor.
The top 4 recruiting classes for 2016 were Maryland, Baylor, Texas and Florida State on Hoop Gurlz
Completely bogus. The women's game within itself is incredibly tough. I would put their individual skills up against any man within their sport. Long range shooting? Every bit as good. Free throw shooting...I would bet women are better overall. Guard play and distributing the ball. Even. The list goes on. You can't compare the sports against each other...you have to look within the given sport itself.
