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darbypitcher22

I still think those 5 I mentioned(granted, I mentioned 3 post players and 2 guards, but Charles could play the 3 and play pretty well) would run court on any group of 5 guys you could pick from the rec @ OSU or the Y somewhere in Columbus.

Hb31187

Lol you must not get out much or frequent any rec centers or anything?

Ask hiddengems about the players who play at the hoop or around columbus and he'll tell you how foolish that is lol.

thedynasty1998

Hb, where do you play at? I've been playing in the Columbus rec leagues for a few years now and am usually in the Champ of Champs so I've seen most of the good teams around Columbus.

But I do agree with you. The team I play on could beat most D1 college female teams. No doubt about it.

slingshot4ever

No, I find it very boring.

Hb31187

I live in Delaware but if I go to columbus its usually its to the hoop or outdoors @ lane if they got people out there. Got a couple friends who were in that champ of champs this year down at berliner...and if you picked up an all star team from the people down there it would mop the floor with any group of female basketball players that can be assembled lol

lhslep134

darbypitcher22 wrote: I do.

This is probably because my sister played, but the fact that they're women takes certain things out of play(dunking) and I think makes them have to be more fundamentally sound than the men. I think they shoot better and handle better

Generally I agree with most of your posts, but completely disagree with this one. Part of student broadcasting at OSU is Men's and Women's basketball, and doing women's basketball is always the most dreaded, and we have a very good team.

They most definitely do not shoot or handle better than anyone on the guys team. Maybe Prahalis can handle better than most other women players in the country, but not better than the guys.

reclegend22

I've had a cousin who played in the Big Ten, and her games were exciting to watch since I knew her, but no. I might watch UConn-Tennessee in the regular season, because they usually produce some very good players, and will usually check out some of the tournament, but, overall, women's basketball just doesn't have enough luster.

That's not a knock. It's just how it is.

newarkcatholicfan

I do it's better than the NBA.

wes_mantooth

newarkcatholicfan wrote: I do it's better than the NBA.

That is an interesting debate....I personally have trouble watching an entire NBA game unless it is the playoffs or a "big game". But I still prefer it to Womens bball.

wildcats20

I could watch UConn, Tennessee, UNC, Duke, Texas, Rutgers and maybe a couple others on a regular basis. Outside of that, I'll stick to the men's game.

newarkcatholicfan

wes_mantooth wrote:
newarkcatholicfan wrote: I do it's better than the NBA.
That is an interesting debate....I personally have trouble watching an entire NBA game unless it is the playoffs or a "big game". But I still prefer it to Womens bball.

The way the refs call the game in the NBA to me its not really basketball sort of like pro wrestling isn’t like real wrestling at all.

cbus4life

Not at all.

Been around many schools where i've seen the girls varsity team scrimmage a random intramural boys team and get rolled. Not entertaining to me in the least.

Little Danny

+1000 on no interest in the WNBA/women's college basketball. It's not that I am being sexist, because I actually prefer to watch women's tennis over men and would rather watch women compete in many olympic sports (gymnastics, diving, volleyball, swimming). Heck I would rather watch a woman's softball game vs. women's basketball.

krazie45

lhslep134 wrote: They most definitely do not shoot or handle better than anyone on the guys team. Maybe Prahalis can handle better than most other women players in the country, but not better than the guys.

I disagree with this statement. You think PJ Hill can make one of those Sammy P one handed cross court bullets that hit whoever's on the fastbreak in stride? She's an absolute beast at ballhandling.

Now, with that said I agree that the physical gap is just too big. You could take 5 guys from court 1 at the RPAC and they would probably beat the starting 5 for the OSU women's team. It's just a matter of physical size and strength.

HiddenGems

On a sidenote, my signature to all my posts has the link to the website for my Semi-Pro team here in Columbus, Ohio(Columbus Hidden Gems). Check it out for the people who do like Women's Bball. I'll be working on some sort of "Free Huddle, Free Tickets" promo once our season starts up in April.

visionquest

http://www.wtov9.com/sports/22111684/detail.html

Cat Food Flambe'

I'll watch the occasional women's game, but I have no interest in the sport overall - as several others have mentioned, other than UConn, UT, Stanford, and one or two interlopers, no one else stands a chance of winning the championship.

Kinda reminds of the men's game in the late 60's and early 70's - It was all about how far your team would make it before they had to play UCLA.

FairwoodKing

I follow the WVU women because their star player is from my high school (Steubenville). They even chose her to talk about West Virginia U in the college spot that they showed during the halftime of WVU football games.

BlueDevil11

No. Especially after I heard them say on ESPN, that the closest game UConn has had during their 50-some game winning streak was 10 points.
Really? There isn't a team even close to that skill level to make it a single digit game?

original_sin

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Same argument could have been made of UCLA men's team with their 88 game streak also.

KoachKanute

I think the problem is that guys compare womens hoops to mens hoops and find the womens game lacking. I think one needs to look at the womens game in comparison with what it used to be to really appreciate how far the women have come. I'm putting here a couple of links about the Immaculata teams that first brought attention to womens hoops in the old AIAW (Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women). Just look at the pictures; they were playing hoops in skirts! Then you look today at Candace Parker and Sylvia Fowles and Diana Taurasi who "play like guys" and you get a sense of how far the womens game has evolved in a relatively short time. That's how I look at it, and I find it quite enjoyable.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/story?columnist=garber_greg&id=3302119

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080406/SPORTS/804060557?p=1&tc=pg

BTW, the ESPN piece has a picture of the five starters for Immaculata. Rene Muth became Rene Muth Portland and coached Penn State's women for 27 years (yeah, she's the one who resigned after a player charged her with discriminating against gays). Theresa Shank is now Theresa Grentz and has been head coach of Rutgers and Illinois, and coached the womens Olympic team to a silver medal. Marianne Crawford is now Marianne Stanley, who won several national titles as head coach at Old Dominion and now is an assistant with the L A Sparks.

2quik4u

KoachKanute wrote: I think the problem is that guys compare womens hoops to mens hoops and find the womens game lacking. I think one needs to look at the womens game in comparison with what it used to be to really appreciate how far the women have come. I'm putting here a couple of links about the Immaculata teams that first brought attention to womens hoops in the old AIAW (Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women). Just look at the pictures; they were playing hoops in skirts! Then you look today at Candace Parker and Sylvia Fowles and Diana Taurasi who "play like guys" and you get a sense of how far the womens game has evolved in a relatively short time. That's how I look at it, and I find it quite enjoyable.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/story?columnist=garber_greg&id=3302119

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080406/SPORTS/804060557?p=1&tc=pg

BTW, the ESPN piece has a picture of the five starters for Immaculata. Rene Muth became Rene Muth Portland and coached Penn State's women for 27 years (yeah, she's the one who resigned after a player charged her with discriminating against gays). Theresa Shank is now Theresa Grentz and has been head coach of Rutgers and Illinois, and coached the womens Olympic team to a silver medal. Marianne Crawford is now Marianne Stanley, who won several national titles as head coach at Old Dominion and now is an assistant with the L A Sparks.

if they went back to that they would get more ratings

hilliardfan

I don't watch much women's basketball but I would watch it before I would watch the NBA.

Writerbuckeye

To those of you making the UConn argument against watching women's hoops -- it wasn't that long ago UCLA was dominating men's hoops MUCH more than UConn is dominating on the women's side.

Parity takes a while to work its way throughout the sport, and the women's game is only just getting started by comparison to the men. Give it a few more years of growth (and it is growing) and for the high school programs to catch up to the scholarships available, and you will see a remarkable change.

I started watching girls basketball back in the mid 70s when WBCO Radio in Bucyrus was broadcasting a girls basketball game of the week (I did a year of color commentary). I've been hooked ever since.

When I moved to Columbus in the mid 1980s I got season tickets to the OSU women and was fortunate enough to watch Katie Smith during her four years -- and she's still the best women's player I've ever seen when you consider an all around game.

The team Coach Foster has on the floor now is 10 times more athletic to those teams Katie played on; the game has evolved that quickly in the last 20 years or so; and it's great fun to watch how much the game is changing.

Those of you who haven't actually watched a game need to take in a game at OSU to see Samantha Prahalis and Jantel Lavender in action; these two are worth the price of admission by themselves, and OSU is really fun to watch as they play end to end for 40 minutes.

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