Interesting question that Brian discusses below – Who teeth The GOAT of women’s college basketball?
Take Brittney Griner, for example, who ultimately led a Baylor team that featured another WNBA player (Odyssey Sims) to a 40-0 record. 2011-12. Baylor’s record over the past three seasons was 108-5.
Let’s go back to the ’80s and consider Cheryl Miller, who won the Wooden Award three years in a row. However, at that time the college game was still relatively new and there were not enough schools to devote a lot of resources to…
what? What about the men’s game? Oh, yes…
To be honest, the whole “women are now better than men” trope is going a little too far. There’s nothing wrong with seeing women’s basketball getting the recognition it deserves thanks to generational talent and other compelling stories. But men deserve attention as well.
What a strange sentence to write.
Will Connecticut be able to win back-to-back championships for the first time since Florida in 2006 and 2007, or will dominant big man Zach Eady (7-foot-4, or 2.24 meters) lead Purdue to the championship? Enjoy the next few hours. First national championship.
Beau will be here soon. In the meantime, here’s Brian Graham on the growth of the women’s game:
After the curtain finally came down on Caitlin Clark’s college career and the final garnet and black confetti fell on Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland Sunday afternoon, the leading scorer in major college basketball history finally readjusted. We were able to look back on a season that was filled with all sorts of expectations about how women’s sports would be covered, commercialized and consumed.
Twice in the last week alone, Clark’s games have set new television ratings records for women’s college basketball, and the team is all but assured of third place in the title game by the time Sunday night’s game airs. Even University of South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley, who just came off a perfect season en route to its second NCAA title in three years with a team that graduated all five starters, is perhaps the best coach to date. It was his best job as a player, but he couldn’t make a big contribution to the victory. Speech before paying homage to the women of time, saying: “I would like to personally thank Caitlin Clark for elevating our sport.”
While it’s debatable whether Clark is the greatest player in college history, to me it’s still Maya Moore, it’s been a long time since the Hawkeyes star brought mainstream attention to the women’s game. There is no doubt that he has contributed more than anyone else. Clark and the Hawkeyes will be reservation-only after a record 55,646 fans attended an October preseason game at the outdoor football stadium. Iowa State’s victory over LSU in the Elite Eight drew 12.3 million television viewers in the United States, making it one of the most-watched non-NFL sporting events of the past year. Saturday night’s Final Four game against Connecticut drew an average of 14.2 million viewers and a peak audience of 17 million, more than all of last year’s World Series and NBA Finals games.
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