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. Yeah, I know, A'ja Wilson kicked butt. Baylor had a reduced roster and lost its first two Big 12 games last season, but still went on to win their 12th consecutive conference title in Collen's debut. If you took the best AAU basketball team they'd beat the wnba. Gold 2003 X Games 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. NY, AZ, CO, CT, IA, IL, IN, MI, NJ, PA, TN, VA, WV only. Lindsey Jacobellis becomes oldest world championships medalist in snowboard Mikaela Shiffrin resumes World Cup wins record chase this weekend. For Stanford, Hannah Jump and Brooke Demetre would have to get going, and Brink would need to stay out of foul trouble. A top HS team probably beats them. They also improved their home record to a surprising 9-6 mark, which comes in sharp contrast to this teams 3-11 record on the road. I think the bulk of the madness this year will come from all the power conferences beating up on one another with the 6 or 7 seeds being more dangerous than theyve been in awhile. Still, this isnt the same team were used to at this stage. 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.. 21st 2002 X Games Using our college basketball simulation engine , we had the UConn women play the UT men 1,001 times. I hope that all the players and Iowa State fans can find it in their hearts to forgive me. Phelan M. Ebenhack/Associated Press Friday night marks the beginning to the WNBA's 25th. With Smith, Egbo and Jordan Lewis gone to the WNBA, the Bears added three freshmen and four Division I transfers to the roster. "We showed we could play with anybody in the country," junior guard Sarah Andrews said after the Texas game. Physiological differences between men and women mean that the women are just not as fast, strong, or jump as high as men. As for not beating overseas teams, Harvard just beat Japans national . Not a doubt in mind. The Rebels are just 6-10 in the Mountain West, but like UCF, they are geared to beat more talented teams (or lose by 30 to them). That's not a putdown of the WNBA, it's just a fact. The Ducks beat Team USA, 93-86, on their home floor to open an already ridiculously hyped year. Jessie Diggins is first U.S. cross-country skier to win individual world U.S. hockey captain Kendall Coyne Schofield is pregnant, plans return to U.S. 33 basketball teams get one chance to qualify for Olympics. Gold 2015 Worlds Thanks for contacting us. The reasons for their failure may have been inherent to the whole project. 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. College vs WNBA is where it gets tough because both are very skilled and college has the size advantage. After 65 wins, the question started off as a hypothetical one. Seventh 2014 Olympics Answer (1 of 9): Easy. OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Any other potential Cinderellas we should have an eye on? 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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. Gold 2004 X Games 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. Ohio only. I cant believe weve gotten this far without talking about the chaos that could be the Big East. Even Indiana suffered a second loss while South Carolina kept chugging along. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting. We saw Stanford have some severe offensive issues in conference play, and turnovers are death against South Carolina. WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne, Brittney Griner, Tina Charles and Breanna Stewart were not part of the four-game, eight-day college tour. HS freshman aren't as tall as WNBA players. After the scrimmage, coach made us run laps for running up there score. Sabreena: I think this is a big week for LSU. 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. Kentucky owned the paint and rebounding against a team with very good fundamentals by being bigger and stronger. The two-time NAIA Player of the Year made an immediate impact at Iowa State, catching the eye of WNBA teams before suffering an ACL tear 13 games into the season. With just two wins separating the Gaels from a conference title, I love this bet at a plus-money price. 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. Unquestionably. I think you could definitely get 5 posters that could beat most college teams but maybe not UConn or a WNBA team. You could take the WNT and it still wouldn't be competitive. 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. 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. minutes. 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. The Gaels actually rank two spots higher in net efficiency thanks to their stellar defense, which held the Zags to two of their worst offensive outputs all year in these teams two meetings in the regular season. Press J to jump to the feed. M.A. Loyola Marymount also benefits from a top-four seed, meaning it needs just one win to set up a duel with Saint Marys on Monday. 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. Chantel: Belmont. I want to see if they can push that to 40. Thanks for contacting us. 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. Is the best team In The WNBA able to beat the worst NBA team? If Jacobellis continues through 2026, she can break the U.S. female record of five Winter Olympic appearances that she shares with four others, according to Olympedia.org. 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. They hadn't even lost three in a row since March 2008. 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. I havent even yet mentioned Duke, which was leading the ACC up until the final game of the regular season and can put the clamps on just about any team in the country, or Florida State, which beat the Tar Heels and the Blue Devils during conference play. 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. Ill be at the Target Center for the Big Ten tournament, which I think will be a lot of fun, too. Given the most recent injury news out of Storrs (Dorka Juhsz missing Mondays game with an ankle sprain) and that Azzi Fudd is still participating in only warm-ups, Im just not certain this team will have the depth to get through the Big East tournament unscathed. high school has the size advantage, have you seen the rosters on any of the top 100 high school teams?? He then transferred to UNLV, and back to Iowa State when Otzelberger was hired before the 2021-22 season. This is a much better conference than in recent years, with five teams projected to make the NCAA Tournament in ESPNs latest bracketology. Silver 2007 X Games Gold 2008 X Games 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. Praise be. even at a collegiate level. I had this debate many times since Brittney Griner was at Baylor and I am a Baylor alumni. 1 in the AP preseason poll. Either way, Im riding with the best team in this conference and the one thats given Gonzaga the most trouble this year. A .500 high school team in Arkansas's 3rd biggest classification would probably run roughshod against all but the best women's teams. He put up 31 points in the Cyclones' win over then-No. Iowa State senior Caleb Grill was released from the team on Wednesday, less than a week before the Big 12 tournament was set to . "Our freshmen are honestly, they're special. edit: forgot the w in wnba, changes it a little. Collen was head coach of the WNBA's Atlanta Dream before she was hired by Baylor after Mulkey returned to her home state to become coach at LSU, now the third-ranked team and with its only loss coming against No. Edit: boysvswomen.com if you doubt my claim. 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. 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. Girls basketball is so much worse than men's basketball. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I was really excited after training because I was putting down some really great times. Its unclear what specifically led to Grills removal from the team. #wnba #aces #basketball #hoops #menvswomen #menvsboys". No they wouldnt. A nationally ranked boys high school basketball team would probably beat a WNBA team. Coyne Schofield is married to Chicago Bears offensive linemanMichael Schofield. The hypothetical man versus woman matchup is nothing new in sports. Lord knows what past teams like 2019 LSU and 2013 FSU wouldve done. Gold 2016 X Games Jackson was instrumental in the Storm's success in 2010 in winning her third WNBA . Try a week on us. It's crazy. 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Any WNBA team would get decimated by any mens college basketball team, it wouldn't even be close. Press J to jump to the feed. 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. BALL GAME . *** Skipped 2006 X Games TeammateAlex Cavallini, the No. Who on a bad college team is going guard Candace Parker? Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Karl-Anthony Towns, Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis and Brandon Ingram will play outsized roles in how their respective teams close the season. Theyre also the only other team besides Gonzaga to win this tournament in the last 14 years, breaking through in 2010, 2012 and 2019. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Subscribe if you enjoyed and help us reach 500k! 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. I thought this version of the Gamecocks would be worse than the 2021-22 team because of the graduation of Destanni Henderson, but Zia Cooke has improved as an offensive option, Cardoso is on an absolute tear, and the duo of Raven Johnson and Kierra Fletcher has stabilized the point guard position enough to keep the offense humming. Montverde has 2 players that are 6'8" and two that are 6'9". The Toledo Rockets can hold their heads up high knowing their winning percentage in these 1,001 simulations was five times better than their efforts during the 2009-10 regular season. More fair question would be something like best WNBA team vs. Division 2 or 3 College teams. Not a competition. Chantel: Ditto. Gold 2014 X Games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtC7gM22K80. What's in store for spring? 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. She dominated the NCAA and is pretty dominant in the WNBA. Meteorological winter brought Utah heavy snowfall. The Lions are an experienced group that shoot the ball well, crash the defensive boards and defend the 3-point line, which is a strong formula for knocking off the trigger-happy teams atop the bracket. Given the most recent injury news out of Storrs (Dorka Juhsz missing Mondays game with an ankle sprain) and that Azzi Fudd is still participating in only warm-ups, Im just not certain this team will have the depth to get through the Big East tournament unscathed. 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. 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. More fair question would be something like best WNBA team vs. Division 2 or 3 College teams. Chantel: The Maddy Siegrist Hive is going to be sending you angry emails, Sabreena. 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. 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? Athleticism is too important in basketball. And he'd be doing it for a Los Angeles Times sports section helmed by editor Bill Dwyre, whose generous budget allowed Terry to travel to season openers on the road, All-Star Games, and playoff series as . Most of these kids are 17/18 and could probably play in the nba. 1 seed when its all said and done, which brings me to my last question. Blackwell averaged 15 points and 10.2 rebounds in 79 games the past three seasons at Missouri. Any decent high school team could beat a WNBA team. 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. Taking top 5 in the US vs WNBA, who knows? potatococ. Florida would fucking destroy any WNBA team. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. In four World Cups in the last year, her best finish was fifth. 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 . A hyped crowd, a game-winning shot and Caitlin Clark heroics make for historic day at Iowa. All rights reserved. Yes, the top two Louisiana high school 5A boys teams would beat every womens college team. The very top boys' HS teams would crush them. Regardless of whether she requests a waiver for an additional year of eligibility, Soares has made her case for the WNBA. But they are still missing 5-foot-11 playmaker Aijha Blackwell and 6-foot forward Dre'Una Edwards, a former Pac-12 freshman of the year with Utah who didn't get a waiver from Kentucky after being there the last three years. 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. If the USWNT can regularly lose to high school kids why wouldn't a random WNBA team lose too. If those shots are falling, we could see a surprise run from this group. 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. One day when I am brave enough, I hope to be able to share my story about my mental health and my mental illness I have been battling through all season, he wrote, in part. Unfortunately, I said something that I regret which has cost me the opportunity to finish out my dream at Iowa State. Chantel: Ah, yes, the SEC, it just means more. How would they fair against college mens bball? 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. In between those games, the Bears lost by 19 and 21 points on the road to teams below them in the Big 12 standings. EDIT: And here are some photos to underline my point. While Geno Auriemma said that nothing is fixable at this point in the year, I think a lot gets fixed for the Huskies when Fudd is inserted into the lineup, so a UConn-SC rematch would look pretty different. Copyright @2023 TigerDroppings.com. At 6-6, she can shoot the 3, handle the ball and block shots. By Natalie Weiner May 23, 2019, 10:30am EDT It's a lay-up line like any other, with 14 men and two. But if the Gamecocks run into a team that gets hot from long range and can slow Bostons interior production, that could be a winning combination. New customers only. The Ivy League has also been interesting this season. Come join our discussions, post your own battles and kick some ass! 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. Gold 2007 Worlds 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.) Coach K's team won 100-percent of the time. But even without raising a conference trophy or celebrating another title after their regular-season finale at home Saturday against West Virginia, the unranked Bears can clinch their 23rd consecutive season winning at least 20 games before going to the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments. Im curious to see what Tennessee can do. They have two more games to play in the regular season, but theyre riding a 12-game winning streak. Yes. Yes, those teams couldnt finish the job. Fourth 2018 Olympics The Cyclones, despite their recent struggles, are still widely expected to make the NCAA tournament. I think any state champion would smoke the best women's college basketball team. But with conference tournaments kicking off, lets take a gander at the landscape right now. Cavallini planned to return to the national team after childbirth, her agent said when she announced her pregnancy in August. Twice. 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. A top program with blue chip recruits? Ski and Snowboard. But Juhsz specifically sat Monday to be ready for the tournament, and as long as the current starting five plus Caroline Ducharme are good to go, I think this group has enough to get the job done in what is basically their backyard at Mohegan Sun. 10 seed South Dakota in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at the Ferrell Center. EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) Connor McDavid had two goals and an assist, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 Wednesday night. Grills removal comes at a very turbulent stretch for the Cyclones. I honestly don't think the best wnba team could beat the best high school men's basketball team. The only thing is everyone can then study your lines! Jacobellis said with a laugh, according to U.S. (Top photo of Mackenzie Holmes: Andy Lyons / Getty Images). Weve already seen Ohio State score outright home upsets over Rutgers, Iowa and now Illinois, with the latter two wins coming by 16 and 12 points, respectively. Toledo Men vs UConn Women - 1001 Simulations. Their only advantage might be that the women play professionally so their coaching and play strategy might be better. a champion wnba team couldn't beat oak hill, much less any high school top60 team. Rounding out the top 10 teams to watch are Indiana, Notre Dame, UCLA, Utah, and Iowa. To appeal to the cynics who think this example is complete hogwash, we simulated the Lady Huskies against the National Champion Duke Blue Devils. Or could a top flight JV men's team beat a WNBA team. Our starting line-up went: I think the elite wnba teams could handle a bad college team. Julius Randle was able to dominate the 7 foot tall Big 10 player of the year, Frank Kominsky, and there is not a WNBA player who could hold a candle to him in any basketball skill. The boys are taller, stronger, and faster. Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated U.S. Olympic bobsledder in history with medals in all five of her Olympic events, announced in November that she had her second son,Noah. Jacobellis, 37, took bronze at worlds in Bakuriani, Georgia, on Wednesday. It would be like 999/1000 times. Post #44 by kvash37 Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:56 am 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. 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. 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. 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. UConn, despite playing the Gamecocks tight, has had its own scoring woes without Azzi Fudd. New customers only. We hold our players to high standards and there are expectations that our student-athletes are held accountable for, coach T.J. Otzelberger said in a brief statement, via CycloneFanatics Chris Williams. They will grab all the rebounds. Athleticism is too important in basketball. The WNBA is a tough first year transition for even the best college players. College teams wins. All content 2000-2023 RealGM, L.L.C. And part of that comes from the fact that there just seemed to be so many more injuries this season, which impacted records, and if those teams can get healthy by the tournament, then their records/seedings might not reflect whats actually in the cupboard. Sabreena: Hilariously, we find ourselves in the same conference. Watch the highlights from the Kentucky/Wisconsin game tonight and you will see why the womens team stands no chance. 3 min read. He shot a team-best 38.8% from behind the arc. Both times they lost: 5-0 and 3-0. Get thefree Action Network appfor expert picks, live odds, bet tracking and more. In Wednesdays mens snowboard cross at worlds, Austrian Jakob Dusek prevailed over German Martin Nrland Italian Omar Visintin. 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. Just based on size and strength. Yes, score would be something like 120-24. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. I think a team like Simeon in Chicago this year could beat a WNBA All-Star team. I would say any top 10 team regardless of classification in GA could beat any WNBA team. 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. "But we have to be the best version of ourselves.". 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. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. The men could only eek out four wins the entire season as they counted on a roster consisting of mainly freshman. 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Would a Top WNBA team beat a good college bball team? Sabreena: Its finally March, Chantel, and I think the question everyone has on their minds with the start of the tournaments is: Can anyone challenge South Carolina? not even the Indiana Fever. You are indeed where you belong. 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. 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 . 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