UConn has developed a trend: undefeated seasons every seven years.
I love it. It’s terrific.
It’s just a shame the women’s game sucks so damn much.
There’s no one to challenge these teams. Every year, you’ve got the usual suspects — UConn, Tennessee, Stanford, a school from Texas and Duke/Maryland — who dominate the sport, and then the tournament lacks any sort of buzz.
It’s not because the men’s one overshadows it, either.
Every other season, either Tennessee or UConn wins the title, and it’s gotten so stale. But what UConn did is pretty damn remarkable. I just wrote a piece about how legendary UNC’s title run was in six games; UConn’s was twice as impressive.
I only wish it didn’t seem so predictable. Winning every game by double-digits is something that would be written about and remembered forever if it ever happened in the men’s game.
But in the women’s game, this kind of excellence is sort of expected. This team will be remembered as one of the best of all-time, but even in the day after, it seems the reaction to this team’s accomplishment is accepted as extraordinary but not all that groundbreaking.
That’s because, in a sense, it isn’t. This team is the fifth one to win a title by way of an undefeated season in the women’s game. The Huskies have raised a bar so high, that when they don’t reach it, it’s more of a story than when they do.
