OT: UConn Women vs. DIII Men. Who wins?
Looking for the sage wisdom of the board. I had an argument a little while ago with some friends, and I need a broader opinion.
I'm a student at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, which has a decent DIII mens basketball team. I was of the opinion that if the UConn women, the undisputed best team in the country, were to play our mens varsity team, it would be a pretty fair game. Several friends were not convinced and said that the physicality of the mens team would far outweigh any possible skill advantages the UConn team might have.
I've made a point to watch UConn's last few games to try to gauge my original gut reaction, and I'm still not convinced they'd be blown out of the building.
Anyway, your thoughts?
I went to Stanford Law after Michigan undergrad. I occasionally played pick-up against the Stanford Women's team (Appel, Hones, and Pohlen are still on the team now). They were good, but comparable to maybe the top tier of players playing pick-up on a college campus. Obviously UConn is a little bit better, but I'd still have to say a men's squad would beat them rather easily.
+1 to you for playing against Jayne Appel.
I’m “appelled” by your insinuation
No offense to the OP but threads like this make me miss football season.
I went to ND Law and played pick up hoops there pretty often. Every once in awhile the women's team would come over for pickup games against whoever was around. They always, always got crushed, even when using a women's ball.
This game would not be close.
Uconn's starting lineup goes 5-10, 5-10, 5-10, 6-2, 6-4. Calvin's goes 5-9, 6-4, 6-6, 6-6, 6-9. It's hard to compete when you're giving up that much size, especially as men tend to be much stronger and faster than women of the same height. Uconn would probably beat a lot of high school teams.
Just imagine how badly men could beat women in a war...
The war with cards or guns?
Both.
Remembered a story from undergrad at Syracuse. A writer from the student newspaper wrote an article about this topic asserting that the guys playing pickup in the gym could beat the women's team. The star of the women's team challenged him to a game of 1-on-1 to try and embarass him. She got rolled.