What level of mens basketball could UCONN's womens team beat? A bad college team would handle a WNBA team. The reality is there are only four real contenders. Gold 2010 X Games Regardless of how right (or wrong) we are or come to be, its March, and thats reason enough to celebrate. The short answer is that it's possible, but really unlikely. "But we have to be the best version of ourselves.". Maryland is intriguing because it feels like all the Terrapins weapons are starting to emerge at the right time, and I still think Michigan could play Big Ten spoiler if Laila Phelia returns. Peacock airs live coverage of the world freestyle skiing and snowboarding championships. Sabreena: Hopefully, these age better than our midseason roundtable. Defending champion South Carolina has the personnel and experience to repeat. More fair question would be something like best WNBA team vs. Division 2 or 3 College teams. *** Tore ACL/meniscus in 2012 X Games training run When I was on my 8th grade middle school basketball, we scrimmaged the High School varsity girls team. Kendall Coyne Schofield, the U.S. hockey captain at last years Olympics and world championship, announced she is pregnant and due with her first child this summer. Though, it feels as though we should note that the last time the Huskies didnt receive an AQ (2013), they went on to win the national title with no opponent getting closer than 18 points in the tourney. MERCH: brettmaes.comi turn 21 next Wednesday :)SC/IG/TT: brettmaes Could Monica Czinano and Hannah Stuelke be enough of a force inside to slow down the Gamecocks if Caitlin Clark gets going and puts up triple-double numbers? Olympic champion Alessandro Hmmerle of Austria was last in the four-man final. Yeah, I know, A'ja Wilson kicked butt. Saint Mary's has been a top-10 team all year long thanks in large part to its stifling defense, which limits easy scoring chances and attacks the glass with reckless abandon. Which conference tournament has you most intrigued? They could def beat a HS team lol, just by knowledge of the game. Sabreena: From a historical perspective, I have an eye on the SEC. Some of them are big pieces that haven't been able to play. re: can a top flight boys high school basketball team beat most any womans college team? It's crazy. Would a Top WNBA team beat a good college bball team? Plus, they actually defend well enough to throw other teams off balance, with Chloe Moore-McNeil as the head of the snake on that end of the floor. Saint Marys has been a top-10 team all year long thanks in large part to its stifling defense, which limits easy scoring chances and attacks the glass with reckless abandon. We wont see top seeds Gonzaga or Saint Marys until Monday, and it feels like a near-certainty on paper that one of those two teams will be cutting down the nets on Tuesday. even at a collegiate level. College teams wins. Australian Lauren Jackson, won their second WNBA championship this summer. Usually, you can pencil in two to three No. Post #44 by kvash37 Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:56 am Anybody in the tournament they could have defeated? Like what if you took one of the top WNBA team and they played a decent mid major college team like Akron or Mid Tenn or a team like that, on a neutral court, who would win? It's not uncommon for coaching staffs to ship in all-male practice squads to toughen up their women for the games that really count. The purpose of this article is to not only give Joe/Joan Basketballfan the answer he/she has been craving over the last few months, but to also spark discussion and debate as to "what if" these games really did come to fruition. I would say any top 10 team regardless of classification in GA could beat any WNBA team. After playing baseball for two seasons on the JV team at North County High School in Glen Burnie, Md., Skylar Kaplan was confidentas were her teammates and her summer travel team . For Stanford, Hannah Jump and Brooke Demetre would have to get going, and Brink would need to stay out of foul trouble. As an example. College vs WNBA is where it gets tough because both are very skilled and college has the size advantage. It's only the second time a college has knocked off Team USA dating back to 1999, when. I was really excited to be able to get on the podium here, its always a big challenge just to make it into finals, so Im very happy with myself.. Take the undefeated 2016 Chino Hills team which will probably have at least 3 NBA level players in Lonzo, Lamelo and Onyeka Okongwu and they probably at least beat them by minimum 20 points. Their current three-game winning streak followed a four-game skid, the longest for the Bears since losing 11 in a row on way to a 7-20 record in 1999-2000, the season before Kim Mulkey became their coach. I cant believe weve gotten this far without talking about the chaos that could be the Big East. #wnba #aces #basketball #hoops #menvswomen #menvsboys". And after Sundays win over Illinois which snapped this teams nine-game losing streak the Buckeyes ranked fifth in adjusted efficiency among all teams with a losing record. A decent high school team (+.500 record large school) would be a good match for a WNBA team. "Our freshmen are honestly, they're special. We've compiled all the statistics that comprise the Lady Huskies 2009-10 unblemished season. But with conference tournaments kicking off, lets take a gander at the landscape right now. The athleticism gap is huge. You can't throw a bunch of college players together who aren't used to playing with each other and expect them to beat a WNBA team. like the video to. Those confusing losses to DePaul and Nebraska are far in the rearview; the current iteration of Maryland is a defensive juggernaut that walls off the paint, gets out in transition and rolls off double-digit scoring runs in the blink of an eye. 21+ and present in OH. EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) Connor McDavid had two goals and an assist, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 Wednesday night. Chantel: Belmont. New customers only. College basketball conference tournament season has officially arrived as the calendar flips to March, and while the WCC Tournament isnt the first to tip off this postseason, itll be easily the biggest one to date when it officially starts on Thursday. The U.S. has . This is just about the most balanced team in the country offensively with Mackenzie Holmes and Grace Berger generating offense from the post and the perimeter, and oodles of shooters surrounding them in Sydney Parrish, Yarden Garzon and Sara Scalia. She has plans to return to the national team when the time is right, a representative said. Im excited to witness The Caitlin Clark Experience in person, and I think that buzzer-beating loss to Iowa will have Indianas focus on another level. Britney Griner is one of, if not the tallest woman in the WNBA at 6'8" (and she doesn't play for the Lynx). original sound - Brian Shapiro. Not a competition. Any WNBA team would get decimated by any mens college basketball team, it wouldn't even be close. I think any state champion would smoke the best women's college basketball team. Cavallini planned to return to the national team after childbirth, her agent said when she announced her pregnancy in August. "I think she's that good, who would give us an interior presence offensively, that gave us a toughness. It feels strange to say that the Hoosiers have great depth considering they only play six players, but after last season, six players feels like serious depth for this team. Top kvash37 Pro Prospect Posts: 840 And1: 367 Joined: Jul 07, 2009 Re: WNBA champions vs best men's high school team? By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The Ducks beat Team USA, 93-86, on their home floor to open an already ridiculously hyped year. - NBA2k22 Frosti 268K subscribers Subscribe 11K 299K views 1 year ago it really doesnt matter what you put here. Can the Best WNBA Team Beat the Worst NBA Team? I mean some of those WNBA players can ball and aren't exactly small. The only thing is everyone can then study your lines! Jacobellis said with a laugh, according to U.S. So, \_()_/. Every professional and DI women's basketball team practices against men, and has for years. Princeton appears to have settled in, playing like the preseason favorite over the last month, but Columbia, Harvard and Penn have all beaten up on each other this year, creating some drama around that automatic bid. not even the Indiana Fever. Not a doubt in mind. All rights reserved. Man, it's going to be a long three months in this sub. But hey, Notre Dame won the ACC, so kudos to us. Seton Hall, the worst three-point shooting team in the Big East (31.8%), made 7 of 12 shots from beyond the arc before halftime. Any decent high school team could beat a WNBA team. That's the beauty of a high-risk, high-reward system. this question in itself is disrespectful and undermines how talented female players are. I do think it would be interesting to see South Carolina have to face off against an offensive powerhouse that cleans the defensive glass well. College vs WNBA is where it gets tough because both are very skilled and college has the size advantage. Lindsey Jacobellisbecame the oldest world championships medalist in snowboard cross, one year after becoming the oldest individual Olympic medalist and gold medalist in all of snowboarding. Grill averaged 9.5 points and four rebounds in 25 games this season. If you love to imagine the planet-exploding battles of the fictional gods who will never be, taking pointless knowledge gathered from a life spent reading and gaming and swinging it like a gladiator's sword in discussions on reddit then welcome home, my friend. Ionescu, who scored 30 points, is also a two-time reigning U.S. national champion in 33, a new Olympic event, making her a possible choice for either Olympic team. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. Four interesting reader viewpoints to follow . Baylor (19-10, 10-7 Big 12) won 63-54 at 12th-ranked Texas on Monday, holding the Longhorns to a season low in points, ending their 12-game home winning streak and preventing them from clinching at least a share of the Big 12 title in front of their fans. Czech Eva Adamczykov (ne Samkov) earned her second world title, while AustralianJosie Baff, who was two years from being born when Jacobellis made her X Games debut in 2001, bagged silver. 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Now, I do think it's within the realm of possibility that a good WNBA team could beat the 5 worst NBA players, if those 5 NBA players are teamed up randomly without a chance to get used to. Probably not. a champion wnba team couldn't beat oak hill, much less any high school top60 team. By Natalie Weiner May 23, 2019, 10:30am EDT It's a lay-up line like any other, with 14 men and two. *** Skipped 2006 X Games 10 seed South Dakota in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball, https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi edges Texas A&M-Commerce 93-88, Timme scores 17 in potential home finale for No. Coyne Schofield is the latest U.S. Winter Olympic star to announce a pregnancy. Whatifsports.com is just taking that practice to the next level. But even if UConn wins the Big East, I have a hard time seeing the Huskies ending up as a No. Best way to see this play out is probably that women's college teams practice against a 'practice squad' team that usually consists of decent men players selected from a tryout. Grills removal comes at a very turbulent stretch for the Cyclones. Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Moore-McNeil is the only IU player playing 33-plus minutes? New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. If you took the best AAU basketball team they'd beat the wnba. Here's an interesting article on the subject. This is a much better conference than in recent years, with five teams projected to make the NCAA Tournament in ESPNs latest bracketology. Chantel: Sellers growth from her freshman to sophomore seasons, especially in terms of her defensive play, has been one of the most fun things to watch this season. You are indeed where you belong. Both times they lost: 5-0 and 3-0. Now a college teams going through an NBA season would be complete garbage but they could win a few games under the right circumstances. Fifth 2019 Worlds Jacobellis made her first podium of any kind since sweeping the individual and Olympic team golds last February. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Is this the first time in a loooooong time that UConn is going to require an at-large bid to get into the big dance? ? She owns 16 individual gold medals and 19 individual medals overall among the biennial world championships (the last in 2017), the annual X Games, which stopped holding snowboard cross competitions after 2016, and the Olympics. The fact that the SEC has two teams ranked in the top four, and thats it for SEC ranked teams feels a bit off to me. Yes, those teams couldnt finish the job. We've received your submission. Girls basketball is so much worse than men's basketball. While everyone was commenting about the hair, or the funny actions on the court, it was a way for me to get out of that state of mind and feel like me being myself instead of the dark place I have been in this season. The U.S. has played 44 games against NCAA teams since 1995. there are sure to be some surprises. Press J to jump to the feed. Plus, the Atlantic Sun has two teams currently on double-digit winning streaks, which would make a Gulf Coast/Liberty final a real treat. But lets not get too far ahead of ourselves because with parity across conferences seemingly at an all-time high (we say this every year, no?) Rounding out the top 10 teams to watch are Indiana, Notre Dame, UCLA, Utah, and Iowa. As for not beating overseas teams, Harvard just beat Japans national . Any mens high scholl basketball team that is competetive enough to win a state high school tournament in one of the 15 biggest states in the US could easily wreck the best WNBA team ever. Wisconsin is a strong team defense, slow down, good shooting team and they got beat by pure athleticism by a team that starts 5 freshmen. *** Skipped 2009 Worlds Praise be. Terms and conditions apply. In between those games, the Bears lost by 19 and 21 points on the road to teams below them in the Big 12 standings. The Cyclones, despite their recent struggles, are still widely expected to make the NCAA tournament. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. You think they would have trouble with a a womens team? Coyne Schofield, 30 and a three-time Olympic medalist, will presumably miss the world championship in April in Canada, where the U.S. will look to win a global tournament for the first time since the 2019 Worlds. Gold 2007 Worlds Loyola Marymount was the only team to beat both Gonzaga and Saint Marys this year, and its easily the best sleeper bet to play spoiler this week, too. ", AP women's college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP\_Top25. I honestly don't think they'd be able to keep up with girls like Liz Cambage, Delle Done, Aja Wilson, Mya Moore, Ogunwike sisters,etc. The boys wouldn't have much height advantage at that age - it would just be a showcase of the difference in pure athleticism. Gold 2005 Worlds Sabreena: I am more confident in South Carolina winning it all than I was a month ago because each of the contenders to take down the Gamecocks keeps slipping up. 1, 2023 10:44 p.m. EST. The hypothetical man versus woman matchup is nothing new in sports. Even Indiana suffered a second loss while South Carolina kept chugging along. Abby Meyers and Brinae Alexander are shooting the lights out, and I dont have words to explain how frustrating it must be to have Shyanne Sellers guarding you. In my book, experience plus momentum is usually a pretty good equation for some March Magic when it comes to mid-majors. He tallied his 12th 20-point performance of the season in the win over the Pirates, scoring 23 points while going 5-for-8 from downtown. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Classification in GA could beat a HS team lol, just by knowledge of the game need. 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