OT UConn Women Lose :)

Submitted by Michifornia on

So happy to see this.  UConn get the top 5 recruits every year.  No competition.  Kind of a joke.  Have won 1000 games in a row.  The refs tried to steal this from Miss. St. at the end with a terrible flagrant foul call.  

SpinachAssassin

April 1st, 2017 at 1:18 AM ^

Jokes aside, I liked his reaction right after. He knows he has a great thing going. It was nice to see him smile and think that another team got to have their eternal moment. UConn wins so much that the sheer joy is likely not there like it was for a ntMSU team.

Congrats to all, even the losing team. Sports are great.

Wolverine Devotee

April 1st, 2017 at 12:24 AM ^

Michigan WBB plays for a national championship* tomorrow at 3pm on CBS Sports..........

 

 

 

*WNIT
 

ska4punkkid

April 1st, 2017 at 12:44 AM ^

Rooting for our team of course but please please don't call this a national championship. It's The NIT championship, not the national championship. Also what's with the asterisk leading to the fine print well below your comment. Your comment is not an advertisement. Sorry I think random things are funny and it is late

Wolverine Devotee

April 1st, 2017 at 1:02 AM ^

I didn't say THE national championship. I said A national championship.

It's a national tournament.

When MBB won the NIT in 2004, the announcer on ESPN said "Michigan has won a national championship, as far as the NIT is concerned"

WolverineHistorian

April 1st, 2017 at 12:24 AM ^

The refs didn't try to steal the game from MSU. That was a flagrant to the neck there in the final 30 seconds. UConn blew it by shooting too early. There was a second difference in the clocks and they tried to shoot with 12 seconds left for some reason, why I don't know.

lilpenny1316

April 1st, 2017 at 12:25 AM ^

If they would've lost after that "flagrant" foul, that would've been an awful way to go into the offseason.  Glad they were able to beat UConn and the refs.

Go Blue in NC

April 1st, 2017 at 12:34 AM ^

It was technically the correct call but the way it was adjudicated after Miss St had already played out its possession shows one of the ways replay and trying to correct calls after the fact can really throw off the flow of the game where a UConn possession where they should be attempting to tie the game instead suddenly gives them the opportunity to go ahead. I'm all for using replay to get the call right but once the next possession has already happened, I think it gets really tough to go back and make that call.

freejs

April 1st, 2017 at 12:41 AM ^

I get that it wouldn't have been the last possession* of the game, but if they make their FTs they still have the possession and a tie game. 

 

 

 

 

* seriously, if there's a hangable sports offense in this world it's not getting the last shot when you have the last shot. 

Wolfman

April 1st, 2017 at 1:21 AM ^

However, in this case Miss St, had played out its possession so, in fact, the game, when she took the foul shots and UCONN keeping the ball was exactly what should have occurred, with the obvious difference, and you are correct about it, giving them what should have been the last shot of the game 

I really don't know what is the proper thing to do in this case because in cfb, one it's over - the play - it's over.  i have to give them credit for correcting the call that should have been made but what would you suggest? I'm with ya, any maybe that's why Gino has so many. Most other coaches would have taken a technical in that scenario for berating the officials I have no answer

FatGuyTouchdown

April 1st, 2017 at 12:52 AM ^

She got elbowed in the fucking neck, I guarantee everyone here would have had a similar reaction. The call should have been made as soon as it happened, Mad respect to Mississippi State though.

Perkis-Size Me

April 1st, 2017 at 7:14 AM ^

No one stays on top forever. I don't know much about Women's BBall, but I have to believe this is good for the sport.

People don't care if they already assume UConn is going to win the whole damn thing.

Go Blue in NC

April 1st, 2017 at 8:11 AM ^

Also, not to rag too much on the young lady, but in the post game interview, the player thanked her coach for "letting me play for the SEC" as if the SEC were a team, not a conference. I know we make jokes about the ESS-EEE-SEE all the time, but this just seems to validate them. Glad we have athletes like Mo and DWJ that talk about what MICHIGAN means to them rather than B1G.

MichiganMAN47

April 1st, 2017 at 10:48 AM ^

This is what makes college sports so great. Anything can happen. Hats off to both teams.

BigBlue02

April 1st, 2017 at 11:08 AM ^

Mississippi State got beat by 60(!) in last year's tournament by UConn. Niot a bad turnaround

Mr. Yost

April 1st, 2017 at 11:38 AM ^

Why are you "so happy to see this?"

Just curious.

And please don't say "so someone else can win for a change." Because A. if you're not a fan of that team...why do you care? B. That menality borderlines the "everyone wins" mentality of youth sports. And C. - UConn is still going to win, they'll have the best team in the country next year and probably won't lose a game. 

So assuming it's something else...why are you so happy to see this?

oriental andrew

April 1st, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^

A. maybe he just likes the sports drama, and is a basketball fan in general. I don't have to be a fan of a fan of a team to appreciate that. B. I could see your analogy making sense if his point were that UCONN are still winners and the best despite losing. in this case, the other team actually won the game. no moral victories here. C. Good for them next season. for this season, they were great, but the crazy won streak is broken, which I think was the op's point.

UM Griff

April 1st, 2017 at 11:44 AM ^

Inevitably come to an end. The UConn women were amazing, and there will be a new champion this year. Interesting to see a guy in the crowd hold up a sign that said "111-1". What a run they had.