OT- Stanford beats UConn. Streak over at 90 games

Submitted by sarto1g on

Gino looks like he's about to cry.  Condi Rice is pumped. Anyone care to twist this in relation to Jim Harbaugh?

DGDestroys

December 30th, 2010 at 11:11 PM ^

Harbaugh doesn't want to be overshadowed by a woman's basketball program as dominant as theirs. Tiger Woods' lofty expectations also scare him. Come on, challenge me.

MGoDC

December 30th, 2010 at 11:12 PM ^

Kinda glad. I would've felt bad for the players if they lost before 88 but now that they have the record its good they lost. Women's basketball got more "face-time" on ESPN because of the streak, but a sport where one team wins literally every game gets boring fast. Only UConn fans could possibly want UConn to have kept winning every game once the 88 streak was broken.

jmblue

December 30th, 2010 at 11:16 PM ^

Am I the only one who is confused about how a record set by a men's basketball team against men's opponents can be broken by a women's team playing against women's opponents?  I thought they were treated as two entirely different sports.  Or are all records unisex?

MGoDC

December 30th, 2010 at 11:38 PM ^

I guess. But its pretty much accepted for instance that men's sports are more competitive now than they were in the early 20th century (i.e. modern day Steelers would own any football teams from 50-100 years ago). So how do you compare football records set in the early 1900s to modern day football records? If the argument is that women's basketball records dont count because of inferior athleticism, doesn that apply to male sports teams from several decades ago?

M-Wolverine

December 30th, 2010 at 11:57 PM ^

All the time. But how often do you say the athletes 40 years ago would be better than the ones today? (Maybe teams, due to expansion and such- see: NBA) That's what you have here, and it's because the sport has the same name, but the game is different. Different balls. Different athletes. They're not the same at all.

Enjoy Life

December 30th, 2010 at 11:14 PM ^

Stanford's coach said she had watched every single game UConn has played and has been preparing to beat UConn for a very long time.

Stanford was definitely the better team with lots of big bodies.

ixcuincle

December 30th, 2010 at 11:44 PM ^

Even funnier was the conversation with Femputer, which was the top-ranked comment on that video.

"Hmmm... Perhaps the men are not as evil as Femputer thinks..."

"But they laugh women's basketball!"

"WHAT? Did you not explain how their good fundamentals make up for their inability to dunk?"

"They still laugh!"

"THE MEN MUST DIE"  

michfanfromct

December 30th, 2010 at 11:19 PM ^

As a Uconn Women's basketball fan it is a sad day.  However, we knew the streak was eventually going to end.  They didn't play a great game.  It happens.  They can still win the National Championship.  Congrats on a great run!

jmblue

December 31st, 2010 at 12:06 AM ^

Women's basketball needs more competitive balance.  It can't just have one team run roughshod over everyone (which seems to happen regularly - remember Tennessee a few years back?).  If this is a sign of greater parity, that's good for the game.