Especially if they got a D1 athlete. Powered by phpBB Forum Software phpBB Limited. A college team could beat an NBA team, there are too many variables. Gold 2016 X Games Voepel covers the WNBA, women's college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Athleticism is too important in basketball. Montverde has 2 players that are 6'8" and two that are 6'9". The U.S. lacked some of its top bigs. But my bigger issue with South Carolina is that Im still never going to be 100 percent confident (or even 70 percent confident) in its outside scoring options, who might end up being the weak links this March. It's only the second time a college has knocked off Team USA dating back to 1999, when. Villanova guard Justin Moore (5) looks to pass around Seton Hall guard Femi Odukale during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, in Newark, N.J. Villanova won 76-72. . Jackson was instrumental in the Storm's success in 2010 in winning her third WNBA . The Lady Vols have had some quality losses this season, and theyve been in basically every game theyve played this year for 30-ish minutes. You are indeed where you belong. potatococ. Jun 23, 2021. We've received your submission. Usually, you can pencil in two to three No. I would say any top 10 team regardless of classification in GA could beat any WNBA team. Another, who works for an NBA team with a WNBA team of its own attached, says a reasonably good boys high school team could beat the Detroit Shock.) What's the best NCAA team you think the WNBA team could beat, then? Coach K's team won 100-percent of the time. But yeah the OP's question is silly. Unquestionably. For sake of comparison, we are going to give the nod to Gonzaga over Baylor for college basketball's best team in 2021. Now, if you were talking an WNBA All-Star team, you MIGHT be able to field a team that could compete with a high-level HS team, or even an average college team (assuming they could play like a mid-major team and just shoot a ton of threes to win), but NEVER a good or college team. Ski and Snowboard. Defending champion South Carolina has the personnel and experience to repeat. Height, strength, quickness, jumping all in conjunction. A hyped crowd, a game-winning shot and Caitlin Clark heroics make for historic day at Iowa. They would get creamed by any top 100 team. Now, as to whether a WNBA all-star team could beat college men: I will grant that "regular" DI/DII men's teams should win, but you'd be surprised how terrible some DIII men's squads. The short answer is that it's possible, but really unlikely. The NBA isn't the NFL. 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. 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. 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. Every professional and DI women's basketball team practices against men, and has for years. I would love to see a bunch of 10th graders take on a WNBA team. No. Press J to jump to the feed. Silver 2006 Olympics Which team has the most to prove during the conference tournaments? Ninth 2021 Worlds 34 Likes, 43 Comments. Gold 2007 Worlds Peacock airs live coverage of the world freestyle skiing and snowboarding championships. The U.S. women, under new coachDawn Staley, previously beat Stanford (95-80), Oregon State (81-58) and Texas A&M (93-63) in the college series. How would they fair against college mens bball? Mark Salomon Knows a wide variety of random sports stuff Author has 10K answers and 3M answer views Updated 2 y The better boys' HS teams would play competitively with and often beat WNBA teams. Darianna Littlepage-Buggs, named Big 12 freshman of the week for the seventh time earlier that day, had 19 points and 13 rebounds for Baylor, now 4-0 on the road against Top 25 teams. 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Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. On March 9th, after winning a record 71 games in a row, basketball fans wanted an answer. This is where our hypothetical "Battle of the Sexes" hits the courts for the first time. Terms and conditions apply. 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. I've yet to see a WNBA game where I viewed quality basketball, and given the physical differences, I can't imagine a WNBA team winning against a good Div I guys team. 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. Now that the University of Connecticut women's basketball team has added more national championship hardware to its trophy caseits seventh in school historyand won 78 games in a row, fans are demanding to know if this group of athletes could compete, and even beat, a division one men's basketball team. The U.S. has . Cavallini planned to return to the national team after childbirth, her agent said when she announced her pregnancy in August. Kellie Harper has two weeks to get her players better and find the right buttons to push, but I think if Jordan Horston can fill her stat line and not just from a scoring perspective this could be a team that shows the SEC shouldve gotten more respect during the regular season from voters. "I thought Aijha was certainly not going to be NaLyssa Smith, but was going to be a different type of NaLyssa Smith, a kid that was going to be in the running for player of the year in our league,'" Collen said. But I am most interested in whats happening in the ACC. In between those games, the Bears lost by 19 and 21 points on the road to teams below them in the Big 12 standings. 9/10 times? College vs WNBA is where it gets tough because both are very skilled and college has the size advantage. Coyne Schofield is married to Chicago Bears offensive linemanMichael Schofield. It's crazy that people don't realize just how much stronger the fully grown adult WNBA players would be than a bunch of 15-17 year olds, lol. But with conference tournaments kicking off, lets take a gander at the landscape right now. What's in store for spring? If youre looking for another long shot, keep an eye on San Francisco. March Madness excitement builds as top teams set their sights on a national championship. Anybody in the tournament they could have defeated? 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. In my book, experience plus momentum is usually a pretty good equation for some March Magic when it comes to mid-majors. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xyjeek/you-will-get-beat-down-the-men-who-practice-with-the-wnba, Mikey Williams gonna dunk on any and every WNBA bigs. Press J to jump to the feed. The only thing is everyone can then study your lines! Jacobellis said with a laugh, according to U.S. He then transferred to UNLV, and back to Iowa State when Otzelberger was hired before the 2021-22 season. I want to see if they can push that to 40. Get thefree Action Network appfor expert picks, live odds, bet tracking and more. Gold 2015 Worlds Florida would fucking destroy any WNBA team. Could they do it? Britney Griner is one of, if not the tallest woman in the WNBA at 6'8" (and she doesn't play for the Lynx). Stewart's usage rate is 27.5, right in line with her career norm of 26.9, but she's cut her turnover percentage from 13.0 last year and a career rate of 11.9 entering this year to just 5.8 . 1 South Carolina. The U.S. womens basketball team suffered its first defeat to a college program in 20 years, falling 93-86 on Saturday to Oregon, which is ranked No. Chantel: Ah, yes, the SEC, it just means more. Watch the highlights from the Kentucky/Wisconsin game tonight and you will see why the womens team stands no chance. The Toledo Rockets out of the Mid-American Conference had a season to forget in 2009-10. The WNBA is a tough first year transition for even the best college players. If you took the high school boy's national champion and pit them against the WNBA champion, the Minnesota Lynx, the boys would win 9/10 times. BALL GAME . We are not making it all up in our heads, thinking well of Kris Dunn because we want to: he has real talents to bring, and a body that for the time being will allow him to use them. From first downs to buzzer beaters, get KSL.coms top sports stories delivered to your inbox weekly. ", Caleb Grill (@caleb_grill0) March 1, 2023. edit: forgot the w in wnba, changes it a little. This is the most wide-open field among the major conferences, and there is a sleeper Final Four contender somewhere in the ACC, even if Im not yet sure which team that is. The men could only eek out four wins the entire season as they counted on a roster consisting of mainly freshman. 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. 1 U.S. goalie at last years Olympics, had a daughter on Christmas. While the Bulldogs still lead the nation in offensive efficiency (123.4) and rank 10th in adjusted efficiency margin, thats a far cry from the top-two ranking theyve boasted five of the last six years which often leads oddsmakers to price Gonzaga at -400 or better to win this tournament. As a team, UConn shot under 30 percent from the floor and under 25 percent from beyond the arc, but they did convert some free throws and created more turnovers than the Rockets. Bronze 2023 Worlds, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window). high school has the size advantage, have you seen the rosters on any of the top 100 high school teams?? All content 2000-2023 RealGM, L.L.C. Athletisim isn't every thing. In four World Cups in the last year, her best finish was fifth. Athleticism is too important in basketball. Call 1-800-GAMBLER, 21+. Ole Miss pushed the Gamecocks into overtime, UConn (with six bodies) drove them to the brink. *** Tore ACL/meniscus in 2012 X Games training run Granted, some would think UConn's two percent chance of winning is far-fetched, but I think most would agree that so were Butler's chances of reaching Indianapolis. Sabreena: From a historical perspective, I have an eye on the SEC. Georgia, Alabama, and maybe even Michigan, would smoke some, if not most, of the XFL teams. We've already seen Ohio State score outright home upsets . Top kvash37 Pro Prospect Posts: 840 And1: 367 Joined: Jul 07, 2009 Re: WNBA champions vs best men's high school team? OlympicTalk is on Apple News. I honestly don't think the best wnba team could beat the best high school men's basketball team. Gold 2005 X Games What women is stopping a even under sized big down low ? Chantel: Ditto. And offensively, she has become such a dynamic playmaker for Brenda Freses team. They were a massive disappointment, yes, but also so transcendent for brief moments. Rounding out the top 10 teams to watch are Indiana, Notre Dame, UCLA, Utah, and Iowa. Some of them are genetic freaks like 6"5' which is really tall for a girl. Mick Dierdorff, a two-time U.S. Olympian who won the 2019 World title, raced for the last time in his career at age 31. 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?) To nobodys surprise, Gonzaga (-145) enters this tournament as the favorite for the umpteenth time after winning it nine of the last 10 years and 18 times in 23 tries since head coach Mark Few took over in 1999. Get thefree Action Network appfor expert picks, live odds, bet tracking and more. 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. Ohio only. As for not beating overseas teams, Harvard just beat Japans national . Probably not. Orangutan South Bend Simian Joined Apr 17, 2014 Messages 5,813 She is dangerous, and she makes this team way more dangerous. Plus, the Atlantic Sun has two teams currently on double-digit winning streaks, which would make a Gulf Coast/Liberty final a real treat. You could take the WNT and it still wouldn't be competitive. Sabreena: The most difficulty Siegrist has had all season was against Aaliyah Edwards, and I expect Edwards to once again be up to the challenge. I wont be surprised to see another outright loss on Wednesday. Even Indiana suffered a second loss while South Carolina kept chugging along. Praise be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtC7gM22K80. Sabreena: As much as I want to predict chaos, I cant see the Big East tournament ending any way but with UConn cutting down nets. Even though Id still favor South Carolina in a potential matchup, that doesnt mean I am not very bullish on what Indiana can accomplish at the Big Ten tournament and beyond. We were a very small school (<200), and didn't play in a super competitive state. 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. College teams wins. She stepped up, she knocked down big shots.". Chantel: I, for one, am excited to see how all our predictions come to pass. Post#1 by rcp002 Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:14 am, Post#2 by Jake0890 Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:37 am, Post#3 by Tyrone Luton Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:21 am, Post#4 by wiff Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:26 pm, Post#5 by FlutieX Fri Mar 22, 2013 6:25 pm, Post#6 by Chocobanana Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:01 pm, Post#7 by CBB_Fan Tue Apr 9, 2013 7:15 pm, Post#8 by Kembastockton Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:35 pm, Post#9 by Alienware Tue May 14, 2013 1:14 pm, Post#10 by Jory04 Tue May 14, 2013 2:25 pm, Post#11 by tsherkin Sat Jul 13, 2013 11:11 pm, Post#12 by miltk Sun Jul 14, 2013 2:01 am, Post#13 by TheToothFairy Mon Aug 5, 2013 4:52 pm, Post#14 by APacoJ Tue Nov 12, 2013 11:48 pm, Post#15 by HeartBreakKid Wed Nov 13, 2013 5:50 am, Post#16 by JN Tue Nov 19, 2013 5:08 pm, Post#17 by JN Tue Nov 19, 2013 5:20 pm, Post#18 by Johnlac1 Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:32 pm. Theyve lost four straight and have dropped 10 of their last 14. Kentucky owned the paint and rebounding against a team with very good fundamentals by being bigger and stronger. 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. To believe that any of 2023's neo-contenders can become bonafide champs over the next few months is to believe that a once-in-a-quarter-century occurrence is about to transpire. Scientists push for an agreement, Legislature passes bill requiring police to perform lethality assessment for domestic violence calls, Man with history of speeding charged in fatal motorcycle-pedestrian crash, Salt Lake releases water from Parleys Canyon reservoirs over possible flood risks, Storm's second wave heads for Utah, possibly adding 1-3 feet of mountain snow. Favorite us! Diamond Miller is good enough to be the best player on a title-winning team, and the rest of the crew has come along with her. Chantel: The Pac-12 feels pretty wide open, too, given that I feel as though weve seen the highs and lows out of the top half of the league over the last few weeks Utah is coming in with a ton of momentum and Stanford is Stanford (though weve seen some struggles, as you mentioned), but then you have a bunch of teams like USC, UCLA, Colorado and Arizona that seem like they could play spoiler if everything goes right for them. The boys wouldn't have much height advantage at that age - it would just be a showcase of the difference in pure athleticism. Now that the University of Connecticut women's basketball team has added more national championship hardware to its trophy caseits seventh in school historyand won 78 games in a row, fans. All year long, the advanced metrics have liked Ohio State (12-17), even when the losses continued to pile up amid one of the toughest schedules in the country. 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