Michigan WBB up to #4 in AP Poll today - Posbang? POSBANG!

i saw it on the first showing and i've been trying to find a streaming (i.e. sharing) option since it was first released but have completely whiffed.

it's great, by the way - highly recommended.

If you have Xfinity, go to On Demand, sports, scroll down to browse by Network, view all, BTN, The Big Story and select Naz Hillmon.  Play Free For Me.  Good luck.

TN's last National Championship* was in 2008, four years prior to Pat Summitt leaving.  Yes, they still do well in the tournament, as does UConn.  Their last championship was in 2016, the last year of Breanna Stewart.  Wonder if an old Geno still hits the recruiting trail.

My gut tells me that the really good high school players prefer to play rather than sit on the bench for a TN or UConn team, which lead to the rise of Baylor, South Carolina, and others.  Hope others players will follow Naz and become Wolverines.

(*it's not hard to type the whole thing out!)

There is sort of a new guard in women’s bball over the past five years or so. UConn, Tennessee (more so), and even (borderline) Notre Dame have taken a small-medium step back. Tennessee and Notre Dame are dealing with replacing legendary coaches, and I really don’t know what is going on at UConn. My guess is much more competition across the country than they had during their insane run or maybe being relegated to the American Conference for that period of time was less appealing for recruits? 
 

The dominant programs at the moment are (loosely) South Carolina, Stanford, NC State, and Baylor. You could also make an argument for Maryland to be in this group, and with Michigan, Indiana, and Iowa surging, the Terps will likely not hang a banner this year in a sport they have dominated since they joined the big ten. 

The beast, as you call it, is South Carolina. Stanford is very good also.  I’ve watched Tennessee and we can beat them but it would be a toss up.  I haven’t seen UConn but they are not as tough as years past according to what I’m reading.  Michigan has great depth especially along the front court.  We are a very big team and bigger than most.  If we are hitting 3 pointers from Nolan and Danielle Rauch we are difficult to beat.  This team also plays great defense.  Even though Clark (Iowa) hit for 46 last night we shut the rest of the team down.  If you watched the OSU and Indiana games you saw better defense.  If we lack anything it’s speed at the guard.  Phelia had a breakout game against Iowa and gets to the hole at will.  She’s only a Freshman and will be very important as they go down the stretch.  Brown is out for awhile with an ankle sprain.  It’s only a three week thing and she should be ready for the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA Tournament.  This team is very good.

My biggest worry is shooting and turnovers. Michigan has done a much better job of shooting but they're prone to cough up the ball. Plus they got ran out of the court by Lousiville. I think they're firmly in a very good tier but not at an elite level of South Carolina, Louisville and Stanford (Maybe you can throw in UConn if Paige Bueckers is back for the NCAA tourney run). 

Watching Clark taking (and often raining) those absurd 3's last night, I just had one thought rattling my pretty empty head:  What one player has changed his/her sport more than Steph?  Mike Vick comes to mind, but he was only the first of what was to be a deluge (as Bobby Bowden said at the time).  Michael (and Jalen!) changed the fashion of the game, for sure.  But where kids saw a player and changed the skills they developed?  That's Steph.