I've often derided women's basketball as not entertaining, but this gold, pure gold. Was taking a sip of coffee and did an actual spit take at the very end. You couldn't script a more hilarious series.
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Ok, eating some crow here...I LOVE women's basketball!
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That is a stretch of really really really good basketball.
Honestly. As you're watching it and you see the Vandy player going down the floor for a totally uncontested layup, you're thinking "she's not actually gonna miss this is she? She can't." Then she does. And not a fluke weird bounce off the rim miss. She chucked it into the bottom of the rim.
I'm 45, as white as they come, have never played a day of competitive basketball in my life and I can do a better layup than that It was basically a warmup drill. There wasn't a UT player anywhere in the vicinity to even make her look.
And she's getting a free education in return.
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Not to mention the 3 shots UT took that were shot directly into the bottom of the rim and then 2 directly into the bottom of the backboard. People will call you sexist, but it's an inferior product vs men's bball. Women's golf is watchable, because they aren't asked to play a 7,200 yard golf course as men are. Softball is watchable (although kinda not because pitchers dominate the sport so much it gets boring watching 2-0 games, but its a clean watch), because they're not asked to run 90' bases, pitch from 60', hit HRs to 375'. I digress.
I'm not a NASCAR fan, but I equate it with watching car racing, except the cars are just driving highway speeds.
If only it were an actual joke.
It reminds of watching little kids learning to play. They don't know what to do so they're just randomly throwing the ball around and randomly chucking it towards the backboard area.
Except these are D1 scholarship players.
Kudos to the announcers. No idea how they maintain a composed, professional demeanor.
If you've watch enough basketball, you've seen men do similar things 
You know the missed shot is getting all the attention, but the tennessee player shooting to the top of the perimeter to run into her teammate to defend nobody leaving the vandy player all alone is just as good, if not better.
I was going to commen t on that but but wasn't sure what was even going on there. It almost looks like the one UT player was going to try to catch up with the Vandy player, but the other UT player comes in and blocks her. It's not accidental contact either. Whatever it was, it was intentional.
And what year was that from? Don't recognize any of the players. Looks like before HD TV.
I guess we could also go to NBA or NFL films and look at their "Folly" episodes. Same thing.
No idea.
I could name/recognize probably less than 5 female basketball players in history.
How do you know it was a she? Did you just gendersplain her/him
see all the fun you have been missing
Maybe in a 60+ Baptist church league.If you've watch enough basketball, you've seen men do similar things
Well, if it was before HDTV, then it was likely at a time that Tennessee was one of the premier women's programs in the country. This wasn't church league basketball - these were SEC full-ride college athletes, one of the teams being the all time-winningest program in NCAA history.
True. And for some sobering context, chew on the fact that Scott Wingo, Michael Roth, Jackie Bradley, Jr., Matt Price, and the other members of our 2011 baseball team split 11.7 scholarships between them.
You could check the records on when they played in Nashville when Tenn sported a
14-7 overall 3-5 SEC record, and Vandy 6-15 1-7. Easy peasy.
Don't know. Maybe because you are announcing it to hundreds of people on a sports website?
Well, for one, I think it's an overestimation of how many people read these posts.
Second, you were the first to proudly announce that you did not recognize any of the players. I merely concurred that I am also ignorant (though willfully in my case) of women's basketball.
Third, being proud of not knowing 5 women basketball players would be akin to, say, being proud that you can blink.