The ladies of the Baylor Bears of Baylor University won the Women's 2012 NCAA Tournament in Denver last night. The first team in women's college basketball to ever go 40-0. Despite the fact, Skylar Diggins of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish had a good game she couldn't hold the team by herself. The usual leading scorer in the tournament Natalie Novosel didn't show up. She missed all of the 11 shots she took last night. Which could have ultimately been the reason her team lost 61-80.
There were many tears falling from people's faces in the arena. Surprisingly most of them coming from the Baylor ladies.
Head coach Kim Mokley stated "There were many tears on that bench, but they were tears of joy."
With emotions flying all around, Mokley left the ladies with heartfelt words.
"I just hugged 'em and told 'em, 'I'm so happy for you guys. Thank you for letting me coach you. Thank you for letting me challenge you"
Congratulations ladies!
http://www.chron.com/sports/solomon/article/Solomon-Baylor-s-title-win-a-perfect-ending-3457316.php
Congratulations to the Baylor's women's team, although I do not think that their feat can be deemed equivalent to a men's team going 40-0.
ReplyDeleteWomen's basketball is usually a battle between 3 or four teams, and makes for only about 3 or 4 important games all season; two of them being in the final four and championship game and the other two when teams like Uconn and Notre Dame play.
But there was no doubt that all four number one seeds make it to the final four, as they did, and there was also no real doubt that Baylor would probably win, because they clearly have the best player in the nation.
The disparity in talent is so great in women's college basketball that it weakens the institution as a whole.
It was a well deserved win for the Baylor Bears last night. I watched the whole game and was surprised the Irish were able to hang in there for a while. Skylar Diggins is a great ball player but forced a lot of shots late in the second half with her team down big. It was a good game and both teams equally deserved to be there. Griner put on a clinic as usual though and Notre Dame had no answer for her. Her ability to score at will is what makes her probably the best center to ever play womens collegiate basektball. I'm interested to see if she will get similar media coverage in the WNBA and bring some life into the sport, or just fade into the shadows like the other former college stars such as Candice Parker and Maya Moore.
ReplyDeleteYou know what amazes me about women's basketball? How there seems to be such a divide between the top three or four teams and everyone else. How is it possible that a handful of teams are so, so, so and so much better than the rest? But every year that's the case.
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