The bigger they
are, the harder they fall, one and all.
Just ask Goliath, or the Connecticut women’s basketball team.
Women also play
NCAA D-I basketball, and it’s also quite good.
In the semi-finals Friday, UConn put its 111-game winning streak on the
line against Mississippi State, a team they had beaten by 60 points in the tournament
last year. Only on Friday, State didn’t
roll over, forcing UConn into overtime, where 5’5” guard Morgan William sank a
15-foot jump shot with time expiring.
Clare told me it was on the anniversary of the death of William’s
stepfather. Why would my daughter feel
the need to tell me that, I wonder.
The game was too
late—and too female—for coverage in the Saturday papers. I caught the shot on the national news, but
not the local. Today, the Tribune ran a
wire story and the Sun-Times nothing at all.
And if that winning streak had belonged to UCLA, Kentucky or Louisville,
the level of coverage would’ve been the same, no doubt.
That last
sentence, my friends, was written one day after April Fool’s.
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