Women beat Wake...

[MajorMajors]

The Pitt women just beat WF at WF by 70-64. Battle of the Titans — each team had only one ACC win going into this game.

Monster games by Garven and Whitney. Garven scored 21. Too bad she’s a senior.

Junior Jasmine Whitney was credited with 12 assists and only one turnover. She scored 19.

Coach White seems to be making some progress but a long, long way to go…

Go Pitt.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

That's a heck of a game by Whitney. 6 rebounds as well to go along with the 19 points and 12 assists.

 

[Black Panther]

Good game to watch and win.Because Sunday will be ugly I’m afraid.

 

[California Panther]

Good game to watch and win.Because Sunday will be ugly I’m afraid.

Will Sunday be uglier than Saturday? Or will both be equally ugly?

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

Will Sunday be uglier than Saturday? Or will both be equally ugly?

If there was a point spread on the Sunday game it would be much higher than the one for Saturday's game (which is going to be somewhere in the low 20s). The difference between the top few teams in women's basketball and the rest of the pack is much, much larger than it is in men's basketball. Louisville beat the number 10 team in the country tonight by 30 points

The first time the women played Louisville, Louisville won by 32. In a game that they didn't play any of their starters more than 26 minutes. And in a game that they decided to sit perhaps the best player in the conference out to rest her up for their game a couple days later against UConn. The only consolation, as it were, is that the Louisville coach doesn't seem to get off in running up the score against inferior opponents the way that, for instance, the Notre Dame coach does.

 

[Black Panther]

Will Sunday be uglier than Saturday? Or will both be equally ugly?

Most likely both.Hope I'm wrong.

 

[ameoba defense]

The difference between the top few teams in women's basketball and the rest of the pack is much, much larger than it is in men's basketball. Louisville beat the number 10 team in the country tonight by 30 points

This is absolutely true. When Agnus had Pitt rolling, UConn never had to break a sweat against Pitt teams that were ranked, winning by 26, 27, and 53 point margins. It's still like this. The elite teams almost never lose to non elite teams, even ranked ones. A ranked Pitt men's team would never lose by 53 points to any foe.

 

[Black Panther]

This is absolutely true. When Agnus had Pitt rolling, UConn never had to break a sweat against Pitt teams that were ranked, winning by 26, 27, and 53 point margins. It's still like this. The elite teams almost never lose to non elite teams, even ranked ones. A ranked Pitt men's team would never lose by 53 points to any foe.

True,but those UConn teams were head and shoulders above everybody else.there wasn’t the disparity with the men.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

True,but those UConn teams were head and shoulders above everybody else.there wasn’t the disparity with the men.

That's the point. The difference between say the number one woman's team and the number 25 women's team is much, much larger than the difference between the number one men's team and the number 25 men's team. That's why when the North Carolina women, a middle of the pack ACC team, beat Notre Dame, who is no worse than a top five team, it was a much bigger upset than any men's P6 conference game has been so far this year.

When the Kentucky men lost to Alabama this year, or when the Michigan State men lost to Illinois, people would say that was a pretty big upset, but that it wasn't anything that you don't see every year in college basketball. If you had said to someone that followed women's basketball that North Carolina beat Notre Dame their first thought would likely be something like "are you sure you didn't get the score backwards?", because upset like that almost never happen in the women's game.