The Baylor Challenge Question!

[IcSyU]

There are intramural teams at Iowa State that would smoke Baylor's women.

[Cycl1]

How about the New Jersey Institute of Technology Highlanders

They have a guy who is 6' 10". A guy who is 6' 8" and two listed at 6' 7".

http://www.njithighlanders.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball&

[Rabbuk]

I could probably pick and choose guys at lied and beat baylor. Granted my best friend is 7 feet tall.

[CycloneNation18]

I don't think that the Baylor women would have much of a chance against any Division I men's team because most of the men would be bigger than their women counterparts and more athletic.

[CyBer]

Women play a different game, therefore no.

[Naughtius]

Women's basketball in general is like watching people run through 2 feet of molasses compared to watching men's basketball.

So you're saying they could compete with several B1G teams?

[jay moe]

I floated this to a few friends in the past few days. One immediately thought I was insane and laughed. A college basketball coach took it in a more thoughtful manner and we had a great conversation about the matchups and walked away truly wondering...

Could the national champion Baylor Bears women's team beat a low level Div I men's team?

What do you think?

My thoughts? I believe they could. Many of the men's athletes that scrimmage against a women's team could play at the D-I level albeit a "lowly" school. Would Griner have as big an impact? Probably not, but she would still be decent. Where I think the matchups would be interesting are in the guard court. Someone like Sims could probably go toe to toe with her counterpart pretty easily. I also took into account that the matchup would have officials that actually call fouls and other rule offenses...of course this rules out nearly all D-I officials!

No way. They couldn't even beat a good boys high school team.

[3TrueFans]

They would be mystified when the ref started counting to 10 the first time, it'd go downhill from there.

[Cycl1]

No way. They couldn't even beat a good boys high school team.

Ames would probably have beaten them when they had HB and bubu and mcd.

[3TrueFans]

Ames would probably have beaten them when they had HB and bubu and mcd.

By 60.

[mred]

I'm a huge WBB fan, and I think a decent high school boys team would beat Baylor without much trouble. There's just a huge athleticism gap.

[mred]

They would be mystified when the ref started counting to 10 the first time, it'd go downhill from there.

They all played with a 10-second backcourt count in high school.

[Cycl1]

They all played with a 10-second backcourt count in high school.

have you ever seen it called?

[mred]

have you ever seen it called?

In HS GBB? Plenty of times.

[IcSyU]

have you ever seen it called?

Yeah, I've called it plenty of times.