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This article<\/a> from yesterday’s New York Times<\/em> gives ten great reasons why women’s college basketball rocks at least as much as (if not more than) the men’s game.<\/p>\n

It continues to frustrate me that women’s sports continue to be thought less of than men’s. Have those naysayers ever seen a women’s NCAA Div I game? These are elite women players with skills to rival their male counterparts (and often brains to surpass them).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, on a personal level, last night my beloved UConn women fell to the Stanford Cardinals. Several of our key players were injured, but, frankly, Stanford outplayed us and demonstrated how much a team can grow over the course of a season. Their 23rd straight win was well-deserved.<\/p>\n

It’s painful to have to root for the team that eliminated yours to win the whole thing, but my blood runs a true Husky blue and I just can’t bring myself to favor Tennessee.<\/p>\n

I do have faith, though, that it will be a great game tomorrow night. If you have cable (which I don’t), please tune the game in for me and think good thoughts for the Cardinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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