Day 90

Fresh Start_90: This needs to get fixed!
The Womens basketball committee to fix the ranking system… The UConn women’s basketball team is ranked number 3 in the rankings to start the season, and I just don’t see how that is even conceivable. The team has won 77 in a row and are the three time defending champs, coming off one of the most impressive seasons in women basketball history (in terms of margin of victory). Geno Auriemma has become one of the best coaches in college sports of all-time and has created a culture in his locker room, like Nick Saban has done at Alabama, or John Wooden did back in the day with his UCLA Bruins.

In my mind, the team that has won three in a row deserves some respect for just dominating the league, and becoming the closest thing to a WNBA team as possible, and might actually be better than some WNBA teams. On Thursday the Lady Huskies beat number 2 Baylor at home 72-61 behind freshman Crystal Dangerfield who collected 19, 4, and 5 off the bench. The rankings will shake up after Tuesday and the Lady Huskies have a game this afternoon on the road traveling to play LSU. Number 1 Norte Dame is playing number 17 Washington today as well, so the Huskies could be number one by the time they wake up Monday morning for classes. With the lack of national coverage that women’s basketball and women college sports get it is tough to get a strong following behind it. But, with the conversations about the BCS and the Men’s basketball committee being fix, the conversation needs to also include the Women’s basketball committee as well. I know Auriemma doesn’t care what his rank is, he is just focused on winning games, it needs to be fixed. If a Men’s team was doing what Auriemma’s huskies are doing, the coverage would be through the roof and the ratings would be insane, with the final half being watched like Game 7 of the Cubs/Indians every single game.

The growth of the women’s game is at an all-time high and with the increase in scholarships, the play on the floor for the women will only get better. It is an exciting time to a women’s college basketball fan, and if I was a fan of the Lady Huskies, I would be pissed!
Sources:(espn.com)

Don’t forget to like, comment, subscribe, and share on your way out!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The 2023 Offseason is Brian Cashman's Biggest Test Yet

Image
   Now that the World Series is over five days from now the offseason begins. With that in mind, this is the biggest offseason that Brian Cashman will have in his 25-year tenure as Yankee General Manager. For the first time since 2016 the Bronx Bombers watched the postseason from their couches, and they earned that right. Amazingly, this team finished over .500, although not that far above that mark. This iteration of the Bronx Bombers finish with the same record as that 2016 team—but the feeling with this squad feels different. Following the 2016 season, there was hope of the two power bats that would usher in the “Baby Bombers,” and in that offseason, the farm system was rated in the Top 10 in all of baseball. There was almost certainty that Brian Cashman would put a championship team around Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Greg Bird, and Luis Severino that would be a title contender for years to come. There was hope. And that hope almost turned into reality. Almost. But, that was then
Read more

The Question going into the Trade Deadline for the New York Yankees

  There is a crossroads in the Bronx in between River and 161 st Street right now. As New York Yankee Manager Aaron Boone likes to put it “[the season] is right in front of them.” The second half of the season is for the taking. As we move into the dog days of summer the Bronx Bombers are nine games out of the division and now a game and a half out of the AL Wild Card race following a disappointing first series in Colorado. With that, the historic starting Tampa Bay Rays have cooled off, going 3-7 before the break while showing signs of being mortal. Baltimore, who has been keeping pace with Tampa, didn’t look like a Superpower when they split against the Yankees two series before the break. The AL East is still a Spartan Training Facility with every team above .500, the Orioles holding the first Wild Card spot, and the “struggling” Boston Red Sox tied the Yankees in the Wild Card race. And unlike Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire, help is not on the way. Aaron Judge’s toe is still a m
Read more

The Answer for the Mets

  As Yogi Berra would say “it’s déjà vu all over again.” Buck Showalter is an all too familiar place. The 67-year-old manager has taken a time machine back to 2012. No, he is not managing in Baltimore anymore, however that’s what it feels like the end of Showalter’s Oriole tenure in Queens right now. The Mets simply can’t get out of their own way. With Pete Alonso likely headed to the Injured List, the Mets scored 10 runs last night in Atlanta. 10 runs on the heels of back-to-back gut-wrenching losses at the hands of the team that has foiled the Mets for the better part of almost three decades, the Atlanta Braves. 10 runs with their hired ace, Justin Verlander, who was looking to put together good starts consecutively for the first time all season. The Mets looked like they were about to exercise some demons in Atlanta last night, and then, the other shoe dropped. It wasn’t good enough. Again. Last night, I wrote that the Mets season was on the line with Verlander toeing the slab. Well
Read more