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I’ve a pal who’s a cranky, previous man (no, not Roger Marolt), and over the past couple of years, he has stated, repeatedly, “Nothing is pretty much as good because it was … besides for ladies’s basketball.”
Now that may be a two-part assertion if there ever was one, and whereas I’ll barely quibble with the primary half about issues going to hell in a handbasket, I wholeheartedly embrace the second half. Girls’s basketball, particularly ladies’s school basketball, is absolutely the bomb.
This previous Monday night time, within the Elite Eight of the Lady’s NCAA Basketball Event, there have been back-to-back video games on ESPN that have been as thrilling as any sporting occasion I’ve seen this 12 months with the attainable exception of skier Marco Odermatt coming from behind to win his 12th straight World Cup big slalom on Aspen Mountain.
Don’t consider me? Ask anybody who watched Iowa beat LSU by seven factors or the College of Connecticut beat USC by the identical margin. That Iowa win had a report tv ranking with 12.3 million viewers smashing the report for a ladies’s basketball recreation.
I’ve been watching and loving the NCAA Males’s Ultimate 4 since I used to be a boy, going again to the dynasty of John Wood’s UCLA Bruins (my all-time favourite groups) within the late Nineteen Sixties and early Nineteen Seventies. However this 12 months, for the primary time, I’m extra pumped about watching the ladies’s Ultimate 4 and Ultimate than the lads’s. Name me a convert. Sure, ladies’s basketball is healthier than it was. It could even be higher than males’s basketball.
I’m not saying that any of those ladies’s groups might beat the lads’s groups; it’s simply that the ladies’s recreation as we speak is extra compelling and enjoyable to look at. There are extra give-and-goes, extra pick-and-rolls, extra rapid-fire passes, and the gamers are tuned into the crew recreation somewhat than particular person bravado. There are not any dunks, however the fluid three-pointers from past the arc are a factor of magnificence.
This 12 months, the thrill is about Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, who’s to ladies’s school basketball what Taylor Swift is to social media. It appears with each basket or help she makes, Clark breaks one other NCAA report. With 3,900 profession factors, she has extra factors than some other Division-I participant in historical past — males or ladies.
Friday night time, in some of the anticipated match-ups of all time, Clark’s Hawkeye crew will play the College of Connecticut Huskies and its star participant Paige Bueckers for a spot within the finals. The similarities between the 2 gamers are uncanny. Each are 6’0 tall, 22 years previous, and from the Midwest (Bueckers from Minnesota and Clark from Iowa), and each have been the ladies’s gamers of the 12 months. Within the 2020-21 season, Clark and Bueckers shared two main NCAA Division I Freshman of the 12 months awards—the Tamika Catchings Award, offered by the USBWA, and the WBCA Freshman of the 12 months award. Not fairly mirror pictures however nonetheless shut sufficient to be kissing cousins.
Friday’s must-watch Iowa-UConn recreation in Cleveland will start at 7 p.m. native time on ESPN following a recreation that options the 36-0 South Carolina Gamecocks in opposition to North Carolina State at 5 p.m. As nice as Clark and Bueckers are, if South Carolina advances to Sunday’s remaining, the crew will probably be favored to win over both Iowa or UCONN, because it’s having some of the dominant seasons ever seen in ladies’s basketball below the crew’s god-fearing coach, Daybreak Staley.
Paradoxically, or maybe not, it’s attainable that this 12 months we might see each a males’s and girls’s finals that includes groups from the identical college. If the UCONN males beat Alabama, North Carolina St. beats Purdue on Saturday within the Ultimate 4, and the UCONN ladies and North Carolina St. ladies win their video games on Friday, we’d be taking a look at an unprecedented state of affairs with each finals that includes the identical groups.
It’s been a tremendous season, and I’m wanting ahead to watching the video games this primary weekend of April.
Oh, and I’m that indignant previous man!
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