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Originally Posted by BBrules
Do not misconstrue - I don't believe that what UConn has achieved is even remotely as impressive as what Wooden's team did. That was a phenomenal achievement and one that I probably won't witness in what is left of my lifetime. I never said nor intimated that women's basketball is even remotely on par with men's. However, the fact that I believe that what Wooden's team did is vastly more impressive is also irrelevant. Evidently the NCAA thinks the same as this is a headline from their website:
UConn eclipses UCLA with 89th win
Subheadline: Moore's career-high 41 leads three Huskies in double figures
I do know that if I'm on The Million Dollar Question and they ask me 'what college basketball team has the most consecutive wins', I'm going to say UConn and not the Mt Padgett Dexters.
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While I find it interesting, I don't really care in the end whether the NCAA recognizes a joint record. It's irrelevant to the discussion of whether it should be recognized as such; which is what we're having.
And a headline on the NCAA's splashpage is hardly proof they count it as an official record. It's good publicity, so there's no surprise that a publicity whore like the NCAA would try to take advantage of it that way. And it's just those headlines I find to be ridiculous. UConn did not eclipse UCLA, any more than Geno eclipsed Wooden.