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Hey, I'm Not Dead Yet ...
When I got up this morning, I went out to the paper box, and got my morning paper. I opened up the paper, like I do every morning, and saw that my name was not listed in the obituaries. Then I knew for sure, that it was going to be a great day.
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Hell, in the 40's and early 50's the NIT tournament mens champion was usually recognized as the national champion, not the NCAA tournament champion. The NCAA tournament was considered second-tier to the NIT. |
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Exactly. It also means that UCLA is 3rd on the list of the most consecutive wins by a college basketball team. I must admit that it is hard for me to believe that Wayland could be classified as a D1 school with a student population of about 500. Of course, I guess you could be considered "D1" if the AAU had only 1 "D", even though I don't think AAU had any "D's" back then.
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Is the parity among baseball teams the same today as it was when the Babe played? My point is you may be right in saying things were/are different between the 2 streaks, but almost all of the same arguments can be used when comparing stats in any sport. Did Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth all play against comparable competition? Were the equipment and fields exactly the same? Were the pitchers each faced of equal caliber? If not, then how can you say they all belong on the same career home run list, because there were different circumstances involving each player. (And I'm not even bringing steriods into the discussion.) It's still a college basketball win streak. How each of us qualifies it after that is where we take turns hitting that poor horse...
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I am not 100% certain, but I believe women's college basketball was under a different umbrella before becoming an NCAA-sponsored sport sometime in the early '80's. That may explain why the Wayland team isn't listed under NCAA stats, because it wasn't an NCAA team.
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And those arguments are made repeatedly; but the thing Hank has in common with Barry is they were each playing against the best in the world at their sport. They played the same sport. If the UConn women want to be compared to UCLA, they should be playing against the men. They could start with playing the intramural champion at UConn. Comparing respective streaks is ok, but they aren't even close to the record for consecutive victories by an NCAA Division I team. Seems to me the applicable numbers were/are 70 (the previous DI Women record) and 137 (Miami Men's Tennis Team).
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UConn eclipses UCLA with 89th winSubheadline: Moore's career-high 41 leads three Huskies in double figures They didn't seem to split anything. My argument is one from logic and is really answering the basic question: What NCAA basketball team has the most consecutive wins? There can only be one with "the most". That would be UConn without adding any additional qualifiers. Wayland Baptist was not NCAA. They were AAU. Whether the UConn record should be accorded the same acclaim as the men is a secondary question that can encompass all the other minutia. |
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Your asking a question many of us are saying is irrelevant. As I stated, the relevant numbers are either within their category or the NCAA as a whole. They've already passed 70, but 137 (the highest record for NCAA Division 1 consecutive team wins) is a ways away. Will 110 (when they pass the volleyball record) get the same hype as 89 did? I doubt it; because they want to have their record equated with Wooden's.
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If it didn't happen before 1982, it doesn't exist. The NCAA is trying to claim the record for consecutive wins by a womens D1 basketball team is 89 while completely ignoring all records of the same sport made or set before 1982. Well, I'm mad as hell and I'm just not going to take this anymore. Womens basketball is my life. Last edited by Jurassic Referee; Thu Dec 23, 2010 at 03:59pm. |
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You could simply say, "What team has the most wins?" (any sport, any organization, any gender).
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I was going to comment, state my position and other such information and opinion. But I can't deal with the under lying subtle and/or b;atant sexiam in this post. So I'll leave you all to this discussion.
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