NCAA Record broken

[chseagle]

UConn Women broke the NCAA Record for consecutive wins in NCAA Basketball with their 89th straight victory.

[Welpe]

Cue NCAA Men's v. Women's argument in 3...2...1...

[BillyMac]

I don't care what the eighty-nine wins in a row were for. Even if were a game of "Chutes and Ladders", that's a pretty impressive feat. It is what it is.

[Adam]

To me, it's like the streak of national wrestling championships Iowa ran up in the 80s. It's impressive, but it's not that impressive.

Geno is no Coach Wooden.

Wooden's record stands.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Geno is no Coach Wooden. Wooden's record stands.

"My grandfather would have been thrilled. He would have been absolutely thrilled to see his streak broken by a women’s basketball team. And he thought, especially in the last 10 years, that the best basketball was played at the collegiate level, and it wasn’t by the men." (Greg Wooden, grandson of former UCLA coach John Wooden)

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

"My grandfather would have been thrilled. He would have been absolutely thrilled to see his streak broken by a women’s basketball team. And he thought, especially in the last 10 years, that the best basketball was played at the collegiate level, and it wasn’t by the men." (Greg Wooden, grandson of former UCLA coach John Wooden)

Sorry, but I don't buy it. Would Wooden have been thrilled? Probably. But I do not buy that women are playing the best basketball. Your average NAIA division II school would destroy the UConn women's team.

It's an impressive streak, I'm not saying it isn't. I enjoy watching girls and women play basketball, but whether it's "better" is purely subjective and aesthetic. By any objective standard, it's not true.

As some caller said on the radio, "The women are better at the fundamentals. The fundamentals are boring."

[just another ref]

It just total apples and oranges. If there's some guy who wins 90 NCAA games of chess in a row, does he break the record?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by just another ref

It just total apples and oranges. If there's some guy who wins 90 NCAA games of chess in a row, does he break the record?

+1

By the same token, they need at least 30 more wins to tie the record. Cael Sanderson won 119 wrestling matches in a row.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by just another ref

It just total apples and oranges. If there's some guy who wins 90 NCAA games of chess in a row, does he break the record?

Agree. It's just a made-up record by ESPN hyping a show that they wanted to get viewers for. The win streak applies only and solely to Womans NCAA D1 basketball. You can't compare it to D2 or D3 Womans basketball, let alone Mens D1, D2, or D3. Or junior college. Or NAIA. Or high school basketball. Or competitive Grade 1 basketball.

Hell, none of 'em are close to the Globetrotter's record for consecutive wins anyway.

Kudos to the UConn ladies. But they hold the record for Womens D1 basketball only.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by just another ref

It just total apples and oranges. If there's some guy who wins 90 NCAA games of chess in a row, does he break the record?

Depends? Did he have to play against women?

[chseagle]

There was some discussion during the broadcast concerning the era differences between the UCLA 88 win streak & UConn Women's current streak.

Now as far as ESPN is concerned, the next big game is gonna be UConn vs. Stanford on the 30th.

Although the score says otherwise, Florida State did do their best to try & stay in the game.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by chseagle

Now as far as ESPN is concerned, the next big game is gonna be UConn vs. Stanford on the 30th.

And with any luck ESPN will get 87 viewers to watch it. Womans D1 basketball is a niche sport on television, same as the WNBA.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

And with any luck ESPN will get 87 viewers to watch it. Womans D1 basketball is a niche sport on television, same as the WNBA.

Remember the measles outbreak that forced the NAC tournament in Hartford a number of years ago to be played in an empty arena with all of the cardboard cutout 'people' in the stands? I'm thinkin' sumpin' similar.