Yeah, but the Patriots lose. Alabama, my alma mater, loses (and sucks at basketball). I’m not trying to sound like a troll, I’m sincerely trying to figure out a 111 game winning streak. That is nuts, and totally commendable. I’m just trying to figure out where the parity is.

I’m a big Maryland basketball fan, men’s and women’s (dad’s alma mater), so I can assure you I’m not trolling. 111 straight is a crazy streak and worth discussing IMO.

I think the my ultimate question is, even when some of these women go to Tennessee or Stanford or Notre Dame, UConn still got 111 in a row. That’s what is crazy.

My question is: There’re only 12 spots on the UConn roster. Surely there are more than 12 good women’s basketball players in the country, no? That’s what I don’t get.

It’s funnier when you’re not in the grays.

Is it though? I think back to Bear Bryant’s days at Alabama when we were so dominant yet people forget Bryant was allowed to simply pad the roster by recruiting guys essentially to prevent them from playing for other teams. The rules in place today should be encouraging more parity but UConn continues to rise above it.

To me that’s “any given gameday” when good teams struggle with inferior teams, and sometimes they lose. But UConn went 111 straight without faltering. That’s crazy.

I mean, on the one hand, I understand it: We get plenty of top recruits at Alabama for football and we’re in the middle of an incredible run over the last decade. But on the flipside, we still lose games, including last year’s heartbreaker (for me, not for y’all) to Clemson).

My question is: Why is the talent gap so high? They still only get 12 on the roster.

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I would think so. Upsets in tournaments are what get casual fans hyped I think. Like FGCU last year or South Carolina this year. The underdog is a big pull.

True, but he can only stockpile 12; that’s the roster size. That generally is why the men’s game and March Madness tend to be so exciting because the talent naturally gets spread out so much, so while your Dukes and Kentuckys and UNCs get the cream of the crop, there’s plenty of still talented guys to go around. It…

I agree that men’s basketball is more respected, for better or worse, than women’s, BUT, a women’s roster is still only 12 players. But I look at a 111 game winning streak and think, even IF there are other schools out there that claim to also emphasize having a good women’s program (I root for Maryland men’s and…

That and the athletic golf swing Tiger employs requires extreme torque on his back. Old guys can play golf, but not with that swing.

It’s a close-decision between Tiger and Jack but IMO Tiger is the GOAT from his prime years. There are some phenomenal golfers out there right now but none have reached either of those two men in their prime status.

To piggy-back off that, we don’t really know how Tiger would’ve fared in his heyday against some of these younger guys if they’d been around then. Personally I think he would’ve still dominated but the fact is the field was no where near the same league as Tiger in his prime, and that fact is what delivered us such…

I think for the very casual golf fan that only really got into it for Tiger perhaps. But there are a lot of younger guys out there that are really tearing up the circuit that are fun to watch, guys like Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth, etc.

You can play golf as an old man with an old man’s body very late in life (a guy that plays with my dad regularly is in his 70s and still shoots below his age). But you can’t do that AND require as athletic a swing as Tiger tries to have. The two just don’t mix.

It may be odd asking this on an article where UConn lost, but: How is there so little parity in WCBB? 111 consecutive wins? That’s insane. I know the coaching is good and the talent is good but there’s only a handful of roster spots available on a basketball team and there are tons of basketball players out there.…

Just to play devil’s advocate with your post, why don’t they have any more claim to government investment than subsidizing art (and I have an art degree, though I work as a designer in a corporate setting)?