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Difference between boys and girls? Speed. Jumping ability. That was an eye opener. I called a game my first year in which the two girls in the jump ball cirle were 6'5". I threw the ball to the ceiling and neither one of them got more than 6" verticle in their jump. Yes there are exceptions but not many.
Another would be the tendency to not be able to wrestle free a held ball. In a boys game we can let them fight for a ball and one will win. In the girls game we will more often then not call a held ball. They also like to congregate in the lane during rebounding. All ten of the girls are there congregating and they can be there without creating a foul. Boys have to jump all over each other.
Of course the higher up you go, the better the play is. Girls do just as good of job of hitting 3 pointers and controlling the basketball as boys. I love a well played girls game. That game I mentioined above had more three point shots made then I had seen in many boys JV games.
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