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UConn wins 88th consecutive game to tie UCLA for Division I record

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UConn wins 88th consecutive game "to tie UCLA for Division I record"
http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-women/hc-uconn-tie-record-1220-20101219,0,4492006.story

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/sports/ncaabasketball/20uconn.html

I have made my opinion clear on this logic in the past. I believe it is a great accomplishment for the UConn women's program, and for Coach Geno Auriemma. It is great for women's college basketball, which I have always supported.
But to lump this accomplishment in with all Division I basketball, including men's D1, as these articles do, and to put UConn ahead of UCLA (when they win their next game), is simply not logical or realistic, IMO. The UConn women do not play against the same teams the UCLA men did. What would their winning streak be if they did play against the same teams?
 
Great Women's NCAA D-I College Basketball record and achievement....

This has nothing, repeat, nothing, to do with Men's NCAA D-I sports and their records.
 
While I agree that you really can't compare the two...a heck of an accomplishment. I think I saw today that 29 of the 88 are against ranked opponents. Many of those were blow outs, that is just amazing. They are just so much better than any other team!
 
kind of reminds me of when the Riverman set some Pro winning streak in Hockey years ago...wasn't it 17 games or something.

While very amazing I just never considered a real "PRO" winning streak.....with all due respect to those that accomplished it as I don't want some Hockey goon to smash me into the Civic Center wall tonite..:)

It was kinda like a 1AA streak....
 
bigdaddystuck said:
While I agree that you really can't compare the two...a heck of an accomplishment. I think I saw today that 29 of the 88 are against ranked opponents. Many of those were blow outs, that is just amazing. They are just so much better than any other team!
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What they have done, and continue to do is stunning. I think everyone knows the men's and women's games are different.

However, bball today is much more complex than in the past as well. To have a streak like this today is incredible.

I love Geno's postgame presser too!
 
UCONN won #89 in a row tonight against FSU.

Talk about an uptempo game :-o These women are down the court in a blink of an eye.

Sold out XL Center, 16,000+ I guess.

I wish Bradley would just give away tickets to one game or require the students to go to one particular game for a graduation credit or something. Still wanting to hear what the new place would sound like with 4,500 in it. Had no idea I wouldn't have heard it by now, even with the men playing a couple games in it.

Anyway, if you don't want to watch the game at least watch the first 10 minutes. The introductions start at about the 3:00 mark, go full screen and turn up the volume!

Edit: Espn3 is playing games tonight, the link I copied and pasted will take you to a different game so I'll take the link down and see if I can find it again, or I might have clicked on the wrong thing.

Something neat happened at about the 50 minute mark, hope I remembered the time right. UCONN coach takes out one of his players and gives her a hug and a kiss on the side of her head. I thought that was :cool:
 
some other great win streaks that make the UCLA accomplishment look paltry... ;)

-Jahangir Khan's won 555 consecutive squash matches
-Esther Vergeer has won 401 consecutive matches in wheelchair tennis, including..250 consecutive sets won!
-Kenyon College has won the NCAA D-III Swimming National Championship 31 consecutive YEARS!!
-Of course we all know Edwin Moses won his event (Men's 400m Hurdles) 122 consecutive times in International Competition over 10 years!
-Iolanda Balsas won the Women's High Jump in International competition 150 consecutive times (1956-1967)
-Misty May & Kerri Walsh once won 90 consecutive beach volleyball matches
-Men's Freestyle Wrestling Champion Osamu Watanabe won 187 consecutive matches NEVER losing ever in international matches NOR as a pro in 28 years!
-Alexander Karelin won every Greco-Roman wrestling match in International competition for 13 years -- more than 400 matches..and even wrestled 220 in a row without even giving up a single point!!
-there's a high school in Florida whose wrestling team has won 459 consecutive matches!!!


so if we are going to do direct comparisons between different sports and events, then...
Can you imagine the UConn women winning 220 basketball games in a row without giving up a single point??
 
AZ BU Fan said:
Great Women's NCAA D-I College Basketball record and achievement....

This has nothing, repeat, nothing, to do with Men's NCAA D-I sports and their records.
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Agreed. I wish ESPN would stop trying to compare them. "Analysts" are trying to compare records across essentially different sports. U Conn is by far the most dominant team, and Geno is a great coach.

What is better, electricity or penicillin?
 
I agree. They should promote the great accomplishments of the UConn team and Coach Auriemma, and stop bringing up UCLA and making comparisons with them. UCLA should be left out of this discussion completely. Records involving totally different sports can't be compared.

The only record UConn broke last night with their 89th straight win was their own record of 88 wins that they set their last game.
 
This is no small potatoes, this is a GREAT accomplishment. But there is a big disparity in the talent level in women's hoops. There is one great team, a few good ones and the rest that are either average (even if ranked, they get demolished) or below average.

In men's basketball, the talent pool of stud players is spread enough where there is some level of parity.
 
These types of records should be kept separate. Men's and women's basketball are 2 different games.

I hate to see so much attention about the streak funnel into a debate about men's vs. women's basketball in general. Why can't we celebrate the streak for what it is without trying to turn it into some referendum about the sport of women's basketball?
 
TheAsianSensation said:
Why can't we celebrate the streak for what it is without trying to turn it into some referendum about the sport of women's basketball?
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Because women's basketball is an afterthought in many places, and the games that UCONN has won in dominating fashion have been against opponents that were RANKED. Baylor was the one team that gave them a scare though.

Seems to me that UCONN is the only school where they are a power in both sexes of the sports.
 
I believe the UCONN accomplishment is very close to the same magnitude as UCLA.....

There wasn't near the parity on the men's side when UCLA had their streak and certaionly not anything close to the parity there is now.
I don't think you will ever see that streak in the men's game ever again.

And when the UCONN women lose I doubt you will ever see another team have that kind of streak again either...and while the parity in women's basketball isn't great now I think it will improve like the men's have as time goes on.

They compare winning coaches many times as well in sports...men and women so I don't have a problem with the comparison.
 
The UConn WBB streak is amazing and they should be congratulated. To use it to justify and demand more broad interest in women's college basketball from the media and the public, is a joke.

If the product is interesting enough, people will watch it and the media will cover it. No amount of sexist, racist, feminist, mud slinging by Gino or from the rest of the Women's BB crowd can make people interested in the product. I am sure there are some MIGHTY awesome YMCA pick up game, NBA Development game, or International game men's records, but they won't get me interested in watching it live/on TV or reading about it. ENOUGH!

Until the PC Crowd and the Feministas agree that separate college records for all athletes, male and female, are abolished, shut your pile hole about UConn WBB streak being compared to UCLA's MBB streak and "BEATING IT"..

No womens' tennis, golf, volleyball, track, cross country, swimming, gymnastics individual or team records...

If they want to compare themselves to the boys, so be it. One record for all athletes, period.
 
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