I'll match your Billy Packer with two Doris Burkes
 

She's even more of an idiot than him, if that's possible. Someone please put me out of my misery. Okay UConn has it all sewed up. By-bye TV for the night.

I dunno, Juulie. She looks like a normal coach to me. Of course, I'm using Coach K as the standard.

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I enjoyed the game last night. While UConn is very, very good (obviously), they showed how to take Griner out of her game......like a typical "big wo-man," run, run, run. She was pooped.

Anyone else see the interview with Coach Auriemma before the game? Wow?! Bottom line - he'd only leave the ladies game to coach the men's game if he were offered Duke or NC. Ok, just Duke. Nothing else would do.....

Uhhh, Mark, isn't that Kim Mulkey, the coach at Baylor?

I enjoyed both games. Especially since Stanford won. I thought the officials did a great job, of course.

I just got so tired of listening to the announcers. Doris Burke is just so STUPID. same stupid tired cliches of overstatement and announcer-speak. A certain portion of the game, I just turned the sound down and didn't listen.

and totally oriented toward Maya Moore. Even when someone else fouled, or made a shot, or got schooled or whatever it was all about how Maya Moore was affected, or how Maya Moore felt, or the times Maya Moore had done that. Even during the Stanford game, they kept showing how people would have to deal with Maya Moore or how she'd affect them.

I mean she's good, yea! And very pretty, graceful, athletic, smart, talented, etc, etc, etc... But there were a number of other women playing, and I'd have liked to know at least a little about them, and NOT what they thought about Maya Moore!

Does anyone who cares think Stanford can win on Tuesday? Much as I'd love to think so, I just can't see it. Rut talks about parity, and how the women's game doesn't have it. I really see his point. It's like there's this WNBA team playing in the NCAA bracket. Stanford's probably at the top of the rest of them, although even that might be debatable. But UConn just isn't even in the same league, seems to me. Darn it....

From what I've seen, Juulie, I don't see it happening. That said, teams win games all the time they had no chance to win. If you put Northern Iowa against Kansas men in 50 games, Kansas wins 49 of them.

That said, I see the parity issue in high school around here as well. Boys teams come and go, with some fluxuation in which teams dominate in a given year. Obviously, there are exceptional programs that are "in it" every year. In girls, however, there are certain programs that are just never in it; and some programs that dominate every year. After a while, the talent just starts magically migrating (public schools, so no "recruiting") to the top schools. The fact remains, there just isn't enough talent on the female side to go around.

Concur. But this is like being on the court with Kobe, Lebron, MJ, Wilt, etc. You're just there.....a teamamate of "the Great One."

Current personal issues aside, the worst TV does at this is Tiger. If you happen to win the golf tourney and beat him by a stroke or two, all they talk about is Tiger - because they believe that's what people want to hear about and see - and for the most part, they're right.

I don't think Stanford can win. Geno says he believes parity is on the way and believes all the other schools/players/coaches need to step up their game. He literally "called them out" during the interview. Of course, he also said with graduations, he expects to have an L in Dec next yr - or he would quit! Yes, he said if he didn't lose by Dec next yr he would walk away - and no one believed(s) him.

As was said in another Thread by a Forum member, the only one that can bring UConn down is the one handing out the diplomas........ (paraphrase)

May I respectfully disagree? Kansas would win most, but I'd say more like 7 out of 10. Having watched both teams play multiple times this year, the disparity was not as great as most believed.

This drives me crazy. I was a golf fan before Tiger. I used to enjoy watching golf on TV because I got to see so many shots by different styles of players. Now...I get to see Tiger get out of his rental car. I get to watch Tiger put on his golf shoes as the announcer is saying "look how effectively Tiger makes the bunny ears, pulls through and completes the tie of his right shoe. The man can certainly tie shoes." And then we watch him warming up on the putting green, then the driving range, then the putting green. By this time I am usually yelling at the TV, begging to watch some actual competitive golf shots.

Can Stanford win? Of course...

WILL Stanford win? I have no idea. I don't think so, but stranger things have happened. Anyone else remember the 1985 Men's Championship game? No one gave Villanova much of a chance against Georgetown and their star-studded line-up. Took pretty much a perfect game to beat them, but it happened.

Stanford will need some things to go their way...but it could happen.

The problem right now is that there are only a handful of schools out there that the true "stars" of girl's HS ball want to play for. If you are really good, you go to UConn, Tenn., Stanford, or maybe one or two other schools. When there are more "stars" coming out of HS, there will begin to be more parity.

The early line is UConn by 8. Tim Donaghy called me this morning to see if I wanted to put a dime down on the Huskies.

plus one!

I sure hope stanford can keep it single digits most of the night and late into the 2nd half. Baylor got me all excited when they cut the UCONN lead to four early in the 2nd half last night. Seeing ANYONE challenge the Huskies late into the game would actually make watching the game way more enjoyable.

Speaks for me too
 

I did a great many female V games this past yr and agree. There were only a few "good teams" and several schools could only put one or two what I considered skilled players on the court. I hope it gets better and the games become more challenging at all levels.

That being said, our Rec leagues struggle to even put female teams together to compete, no matter how much "bunching" of age groups they do - 9-10, 11-14, 15-18.