Which college basketball championship game was better... women's or men's?

Do you think the women's baskeball game was better than the men's baskeball game this year?  Well, USA Today, had a really good article on the topic.  Check out a little of what they had to say and let me know your opinion.

When the topic is women's sports, there almost always are two conversations going on at the same time. There is the competition, of course; the simple aspect of fine athletes playing a game such as Tuesday night's riveting NCAA basketball championship won by rugged Texas A&M 76-70 against Notre Dame, giving the Aggies their first national championship.   And then there's the discussion about the meaning of it all.

Usually, women's sports seem to have to explain themselves, especially when so many want to judge the success of women's athletes based on the much older, more well-established male sports model. But that was not the case after Texas A&M's industrial-strength victory, which not only was a showcase for all that is right in women's basketball but also helped save the day for the men's game this week as well.

Consider that just 94 points were scored in Connecticut's ugly victory against Butler on Monday. But the women? They reached 94 with 14:25 to go in their game, then added 52 more.  Combined, the men shot 26% in their title game. The women, 50%. "Look at how the game has grown," A&M coach Gary Blair proudly proclaimed after it was over. "You're here to (see) women's basketball at the highest level. Tonight, we gave you that game."

We should have known something was up here when Sunday's Women's Final Four churned out two surprising winners, ensuring that not one of the top four seeds in the tournament would play for the national title for the first time since 1994. But it was confirmed Tuesday night after a title game played between two traditional football factories was tied as deep into the game as the 3:56 mark of the second half.
It has been a Final Four that leads one to wonder if the scales in women's hoops aren't finally balancing.

"I definitely think you're slowly starting to see the steps evolve," said Maryland coach Brenda Frese, whose Terrapins were the last team other than Tennessee and Connecticut (before Texas A&M) to win an NCAA title, in 2006. "It's not a given anymore that you're going to come out of the first two rounds if you are one of the top seeds in your region."

Frese experienced this firsthand when her team, a No. 4 seed playing at home in College Park, lost to No. 5 Georgetown in the second round. In a different regional, No. 7 Louisville faced No. 11 Gonzaga the following week in the Sweet 16 — having vanquished the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in the second round — and Gonzaga triumphed, reaching the Elite Eight before losing to No. 1 Stanford.


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