Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Most Dominating Team in all of Sports


Last year I moved to Connecticut where I've been a little closer to something amazing. This may be the only time that I ever write a thing about women's basketball but it deserves to be written.

My eyes opened up when I read in the paper that the UConn women beat Norteastern by 70 points to open the season. (Sure, Northeastern doesn't have a great team, but they are still a college basketball team.) And then on Monday they beat Duke to run their winning streak to an incredible 57 games. Coincidentally, that's second in women's Division I history behind UConn from 2001-2003.

This season UConn is 18-0, but it's so much more than that. The BYU Men are 18-1 but they haven't played anybody good. Here's who UConn has beaten this year:

#2 Stanford by 12
#3 Notre Dame by 34
#7 North Carolina by 41
#7 @ Duke by 33
#10 @ Florida St by 19
#12 @ Texas by 25

Their scoring margin is 39.7. In other words, their average win is by 40 points.

And yes, they've won 57 straight games, going undefeated last year as well (closest tournament game 19 points). But wait, there's more. They've won 32+ games four years in a row, with a composite record of 153-11 since November 2005. That's a lot of numbers and stats; all I need to say they are rediculously good. And after they sweep through the rest of the season they will set a new record with 77 or 78 straight wins because there is no other team in the country that can compete with the Lady Huskies. This is the dynasty in sports.

No comments:

Post a Comment