#1 UConn beats #11 Ohio State by 31 for 88th straight win!
(Sorry, did I glitch the title of this post?)
The Connecticut Huskies Women’s Basketball team won their 88th straight game the other day, which broke the old Women’s NCAA College Basketball winning streak they had set the last time they played.
They did not tie the UCLA Bruins Men's 88-game winning streak.
Geno Auriemma, in a particularly touchy post-game press conference said:
"I just know there wouldn’t be this many people in the room if we were chasing a woman’s record. The reason everybody is having a heart attack the last four or five days is a bunch of women are threatening to break a men’s record, and everybody is all up in arms about it."
Really Geno? Threatening to break a men’s record? I would think you’d have to play men’s teams to break a men’s record?
Geno grew up in Philadelphia as a Knick fan, so I give him props for that. He also won #88 against Jim Foster, the first person to hire him as an assistant coach at Bishop McDevitt High School in Philadelphia, so there was some ‘love’ at the game, which was nice…really.
The ranked competition during UConn’s streak only "allowed" them to win by an average of 25 points, so you can see, it wasn’t easy. Okay, they’ve had some tight games too, like about what…4 or 5? Someone can tell me, or I can look it up.
Geno, come on, you know that there are probably a few hundred boys high school basketball teams in the country that could beat your ladies? You have been quoted saying that one huge difference in coaching women is that once they get to college, you really have to teach them the entire game. You don’t have to show the boys how to play, just tell them their roles, and hope they win enough to ensure you get a new contract, or a better job offer.
I have another huge difference for you – athletic talent. Talent doesn’t make the boys better people, and it doesn’t make them smarter, but it easily makes them a lot better at winning basketball games.
Geno, you are a great coach, and you have had many great young ladies that you’ve helped make into great players. You are a wonderful promoter for the women’s game, but as great as talents like Maya Moore are, there are not enough of them to make a vast majority of us care that much.
However, if the young brunette in the center of the accompanying photo (below, from the AP) is on your coaching staff, I will be tuning in more often.
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