Could the UConn women's basektaball team beat any single men's D1 team?

Lets face it, the UConn women are great at what they do. They've won 89 consecutive games which is more then enough to prove they're legitimate. However, the way they play the game is much much different than how men play the game (in terms of physical ability). Please don't take this as a knock on females but the competition just isn't the same. The game on the mens side is just way too athletic and the depth is unreal. I'd say MAYBE they could beat a horrid D-I team, a few bad D-II teams, and no more than a dozen D-III teams. It's just not there physically for them to be able to compete with a team of males. Sure you have the athletically gifted who could hold their own (Brittney Griner, Maya Moore etc etc) but as a whole, the depth isn't there to compete with a group of males for 40 minutes. Just my opinion.

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Everyone is talking about jumping ability and half-court offense skills.

Every watch a women's college basketball game? They aren't the fastest group of athletes.

They would get run off the court by a bunch of 6' pg's. After 5 minutes of running and full-court pressing the difference between men and women would become very clear.

That's why, in part, I feel embarrassed for women playing basketball and hockey. It's horrible to watch, and I feel bad for them.

There's a key difference, though, in that you're only comparing more or less one physical trait that has been specially honed in track and field - sprinting, jumping, throwing, or distance ability. A sport like basketball combines multiple physical attributes, so that while a top woman athlete may achieve outlier status in one or two of these, it's more likely that an "athletic" high school guy can compensate in other areas. The advantages the average male has in hand-eye coordination, physical size, vertical leap, quickness, and pure strength are a lot to overcome.

Agreed. I read an article once in SI about a top D1 women's program (Tennessee or UConn?), who scrimmaged against guys on campus. Not real basketball players, mind you, but just guys whose work study job it was to scrimmage these girls. And the guys not only held their own, but they often won.

IMO, fully 50% of boys H.S. basketball teams in the U.S. could beat UConn women. I really don't know why the WNBA, at least, doesn't put their money where their mouth is and try to schedule some kind of Billie Jean King style game against a collection of men. Win or lose, it might get more than 1,000 fans into the gym.

According to the Sagarin rankings, the worst D-1 basketball team is Cenentary. They are 0-11.

Their roster, which comprises of only freshman and sophomores for some reason, has 3 players listed at 6'8".

Just clicking on a few of their athletes, it seems that every single one of them was All-State and averaged 20 points in high school.

There is just no way they would lose to UCONN.

I dated a girl in high school who went on to play for a major university and she received letters from UCONN, no super major recruiting on UCONN's part, think she got a call from an assistant at one point about walking on but that's it.

I'm from the whitest state in the country too, so that is important to note.

If I were a betting man I'd say that there is no realistic way they could beat any college mens program, d1, d2, d3, naia, or juco, unless there are just some god awfull programs that I don't know about. I know that villanova's womens could beat some naia mens programs but running is wayyyyyyyyy different.

UCONN could play with most small high schools in the northwest. Talking average teams form schools with under 400 kids, your 1a, 2a levels schools. I played with kids from other schools where I am convinced my ex could at the very least "man" up against them.

At those small schools UCONN would most likely have more size, and their guards would be better skilled. Put that together with world class coaching and they'd be tough to beat. A girl like moore, who has to be 10x better than my ex just scares the living sh** out of me. The girl would make fools out of most of us, that I guarantee.

The real question about Connecticut is...who cares? They play with a miniature, child-sized basketball so how can you even begin to compare them to males of any age?

New Grad wrote:

According to the Sagarin rankings, the worst D-1 basketball team is Cenentary. They are 0-11.

Their roster, which comprises of only freshman and sophomores for some reason, has 3 players listed at 6'8".

Just clicking on a few of their athletes, it seems that every single one of them was All-State and averaged 20 points in high school.

There is just no way they would lose to UCONN.

Agreed. I've seen HS players who have gone to super-small D1 programs like that and they are still phenominal basketball players.

Saying the UCONN women could beat a D1 team, any team, is like these discussions of whether or not the No. 1 ranked college team could beat the worst team in the NFL. With both of those examples, the game would be on its way to being a rout in about 10 minutes. No contest.

Basketball has a lot more depth than track. It also helps that you only need 5 people to be a team. Your college team would do ok in a dual meet type situation where superior depth would matter, but in something like a state meet, they aren't going to score much.Lets look at a small state like CT (I know they have state open and pretty sucky sprinting).100m 6th is 11.19200m 6th is 22.76400m 6th is 49.29800m 6th place is 1:56.891600m 6th is 4:20.423200m 6th is 9:274x100 is 6th is 44:054x400 6th is 3:25HJ 6th is 6'2PV 6th is 13'LJ 6th is 21'Your woman's team will do well in the 4x100 but that is about it. Move to a state with sprinters, and the woman would get zero points.

tunkcart wrote:

For a comparison, look at how top-level female college track and field athletes line up against high school boys. If you put together an all-star team of collegiate women, they would be a very, very good boys high school team. If you just look at one team, like Texas A & M, they would be a very good high school team--three athletes under 11.2, two under 22.75, 1 42.5 4 x 1 and a 3:31 4 x 4, a couple of 20' long jumpers. Plenty of HS teams could beat them, but not your poor programs or small schools. I'd guess basketball would line up similarly in terms of how good a women's college team would be.