UCONN women's record snapped at 90 by Stanford

[Indianademocrat91]

Cardinal 71 - Huskies 59

Congrats to Stanford but also UCONN. I doubt that record ever gets broken or even close to being touched again.


(Sidenote) If anyone was watching the game, did you notice how ESPN always went to Condi when Stanford did something well? It made me almost turn the game off...Disgusting :puke:

[Upton]

1. Congratulations Stanford women!

And the last team to beat UConn before the streak started...also Stanford

Take that East Coast biased media!

And Joey, is you're reading this....

:rofl:

[wilt the stilt]

2. Saw that also

That is one ugly women inside and out

[ProfessorGAC]

3. So, Did Gino Dump It?

Seemed to me he didn't run his usual rotations and didn't substitute for players who weren't feeling it.

He said last week that the streak would end sometime.

It might be better to snap it now and then roll through the tournament like they always do with no extra pressure from "the streak".

Gino's a sharp guy. Just makes me say "hmmm".
GAC

[Larkspur]

4. Stanford played really well and gave UCONN a taste of their own medicine

I love the UCONN women, used to attend their games, but in the first half when Stanford had them down by 13, you could see the panic in their eyes. The Freshmen played like Freshmen and Tiffany Hayes played a horrible game. Stanford did a great job nullifying Moore and Hayes, UCONN's 2 best players and forced them to try to win with their Freshmen and supporting cast. That's the strategy UCONN has successfully used but rarely have they faced anyone who could do it to them. I think Tennessee was the only other team in the past that could match UCONN one-on-one.

This game proved to me that Taurasi was a better overall college basketball player than Moore. Maya Moore is a great athlete, but she is not the leader that Diana Taurasi was. DT was a great field general on the court and she willed her team to win the big games, like the one against #4 Texas, and the National championships during her last 2 years when she was surrounded by Freshmen and inexperienced teammates. Against Stanford, Moore couldn't rally the Freshmen around her, and the Huskies ended up playing one-on-one matchups only to be rejected by the taller Cardinals.

But I have confidence that UCONN will learn from this experience and should they meet Standford again in the NCAA tournament on a neutral court, I expect UCONN to have some answers to Stanford's game plan against them. Whether or not those answers will suffice for a UCONN win, we'll have to wait and see.

I'm glad that the UCONN Women broke the UCLA Men's longest winning streak and I think that John Wooden would have supported them in doing so. They did it fair and square and using many of his philosophies to win, so in a sense, John Wooden gets indirect credit for UCONN's record winning streak. I doubt anyone in the men's or women's side of college basketball can duplicate that effort again. When my alma mater, Notre Dame, defeated UCLA in 1974, and I watched that game, it signaled the beginning of the end of UCLA's dominance and the beginning of the widespread popularity in Men's basketball. Actually, I think Women's basketball today is slightly farther ahead in its evolution than Men's basketball was in 1974. There's slightly more parity in women's b-ball today than in Men's in 1974. I think UCONN will dominate for the next few years and possible until Geno retires, but as the talent pool in women's sports grows, UCONN will face more teams, like Stanford, that can compete one-on-one with them, and that is good for the future of Women's Collegiate Basketball.