Women's NCAA tourney running, or jogging thread

[JackReacher]

Elena. Delle. Donne.

Bingo.

 

[micropolitan guy]

There are about 10 good women's team every year. Maybe 5 with a chance for winning the thing.

15 scholarships. No one leaves early. Not many transfers as players sit on good teams rather than transfer to a lesser program for playing time.

Drop it to 11 scholarships (as the men should, too) and spread out the talent. It certainly made college football a better game.

 

[Batman]

There are about 10 good women's team every year. Maybe 5 with a chance for winning the thing.

15 scholarships. No one leaves early. Not many transfers as players sit on good teams rather than transfer to a lesser program for playing time.

Drop it to 11 scholarships (as the men should, too) and spread out the talent. It certainly made college football a better game.

Then you're running afoul of Title IX. Even though it would open up more opportunities, the Christine Brennans of the world would be in hysterics.

 

[Batman]

Forced equality is a problem with this event in the following sense. It shouldn't be a 64-team event. It should be 32, the way the men's tourney was back in the '60s and '70s. The teams from 33 down are not competitive, and surely no fun to watch.

Looking at last year's tournament, three teams seeded 11th or lower won their first round games: Kansas, Marist and Gonzaga. No. 2 seeded Kentucky won by just 6 over McNeese State. No. 3 St. John's won by just 2 over Creighton. No. 5 Georgetown won by just 5 over Fresno State.

In the men's tournament, seven seeded 11th or lower won their first-round games. So while there's more parity in the men's game, it's not like Cinderellas don't happen in the women's game.

Not sure about the other two teams you mentioned, but one reason Gonzaga's women's team often wins as a low seed is they host the first and second round games on campus. They're hosting again this season because their fans will fill a relatively small arena (6,000), as opposed to playing at a neutral site where you'd hear echoes.

On the other end of the spectrum, Notre Dame is one of the nation's best women's teams, and the Irish get to travel to Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City for opening round games. As a No. 1 seed!

And yet UConn doesn't have to leave the state until the Final Four.
If UConn gets to the Final Four, it will have played 14 consecutive non-Final Four postseason games (including the Big East Tournament) in either Connecticut or Rhode Island, and 19 of its last 21. The two floaters were in Philadelphia in 2011.
The last time UConn had to travel any distance at all was 2010 (Norfolk-Dayton-San Antonio).
North Carolina and Duke fans think that sort of homecourt advantage is ridiculous.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Then you're running afoul of Title IX. Even though it would open up more opportunities, the Christine Brennans of the world would be in hysterics.

Not if you assign them to other women's sports.

 

[Chef2]

Elena. Delle. Donne.

Bingo.

For those who don't know.....or as I said when I first saw her "Elena Delle Donne Gawd ***"

 

[Chef2]

Or as the rest of the tourney goes....hope you enjoy lots of slow-motion layups and missed jumpers.

 

[nmmetsfan]

We get it. You guys don't like women's basketball. Don't watch.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Delle Donne ain't got nothing on Skylar.

 

[Batman]

We get it. You guys don't like women's basketball. Don't watch.

We, and most of America, don't.

 

[Chef2]

Delle Donne ain't got nothing on Skylar.

who?

check that: Diggins.

Delle Donne.

And it's not close.

IMO.

 

[Chef2]

We get it. You guys don't like women's basketball. Don't watch.

We, and most of America, don't.

and won't.

 

[poindexter]

Any competitive weeknight mens 35 and over league looks incredibly similar to big time D1 women's basketball.

Some good shooting, lots of earthbound players, some silly misses, and everything looks like its in slow motion.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Delle Donne ain't got nothing on Skylar.

who?

check that: Diggins.

Delle Donne.

And it's not close.

IMO.

Racist.

 

[poindexter]

Here's the exciting finish to a game between two of the premier teams, Uconn and ND.



Yikes.

Edit: Check out the Uconn girl who never bothers to play defense when they lose the ball with 6 seconds to go. She never leaves the free throw line.

Awesome fundamentals.

 

[Versatile]

Delle Donne ain't got nothing on Skylar.

who?

check that: Diggins.

Delle Donne.

And it's not close.

IMO.

Tie goes to the one who is 5-9 instead of 6-5.

 

[heyabbott]

Any competitive weeknight mens 35 and over league looks incredibly similar to big time D1 women's basketball.

Some good shooting, lots of earthbound players, some silly misses, and everything looks like its in slow motion.

Does Geno stalk the sidelines at the Y league games?

 

[Bruce Leroy]

Delle Donne ain't got nothing on Skylar.

who?

check that: Diggins.

Delle Donne.

And it's not close.

IMO.

You're correct that it's not close. You just got the two flip-flopped. Diggins. By a mile.

 

[Batman]

We get it. You guys don't like women's basketball. Don't watch.

Revisiting this to say, that I don't believe it's the mediocre-to-bad basketball that's the problem. It's the fact that we're constantly told we should love it (and, similar to soccer geeks, if we don't love it we just don't "get it" and need to "give it a chance"); constantly told that the greatest feats of the women's game -- like UConn's long winning streak -- are on par with the greatest feats of the men's game, even though the competition is and always has been far, far greater on the men's side; and constantly told (or led to think) that the best women's players are on par with the best men's players.

Brittney Griner is the reigning queen of the "she could play with the guys!" debate.
No. She couldn't.
She's a tremendous women's player. Maybe one of the best ever. Put her in an NBA camp and she'd look like Cherokee Parks with tits.
Griner has taken the title from Candace Parker, whose 2004 McDonald's High School Slam Dunk Contest victory is one of the great travesties in sports history. Seriously, it's on par with the Olympic figure skating scandal in 2002 and the US-USSR gold medal game in 1972.
Here's the highlights:
To sum up, this dunk contest included three solid future NBA players (Josh Smith, J.R. Smith and Rudy Gay) -- one of whom won the NBA dunk contest the NEXT YEAR -- doing self alley-oops, two-handed windmill dunks, between-the-legs dunks, etc. They missed a few, but the degree of difficulty was insanely high. Their portion of the contest was better than some of the NBA's offerings over the years.
Amidst this amazing display of dunkery, Parker trots along the baseline looking like a dopey white guy in a YMCA lunchtime league, does a glorified layup that would get a man booed out of the building, and advances to the finals. There, she does some hokey Dee Brown semi-blindfold **** that goes in. Hey, at least she got her hand above the rim on that one. Let's give her a round of appl- wait ... WHAT!?
SHE ****ING WON!!??
Are you ****ing kidding me!?!?
There is no way on God's green earth she should've gotten more than a "2" on her first-round dunk. Maybe a "4" on her finals dunks. I guess having a vagina adds eight points to your score.
To win this thing was a traveshamockery. She deserves a punch in the cooter for this disgrace. I hope she keeps that trophy on her mantle and sees it every night, and cries a little tear of shame. She's got to know she didn't deserve it. That trophy needs to be on display somewhere. It needs to serve as a monument to every screeching member of the pro-women's basketball crowd that, while the women's game is a nice diversion if your school is good, it will never .... EVER ...EVER!!!! ... be on par with the best the men have to offer.
EVER!!!!!!

 

[Armchair_QB]

Then you're running afoul of Title IX. Even though it would open up more opportunities, the Christine Brennans of the world would be in hysterics.

Not if you assign them to other women's sports.

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