Is UConn's women's basketball dominance bad for the sport? Of course not

The debate has resurfaced again: is UConn’s women’s basketball dominance bad for the sport? The answer: of course not

It is not a stretch to say the University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team was one of the worst in the country for their first 13 years of existence. Dreadful, in fact. Playing in the tiny Yankee Conference and hidden in the state’s northeast, a typical season for UConn was 7-13 – placing them light years from the burgeoning dynasties in the American South.

Only once before the arrival of an Italian immigrant coach named Geno Auriemma did Connecticut have a winning season. In the inglorious early history of UConn, that 16-14 year seems an odd anomaly. From the early 1970s to the late 1980s, women’s basketball at UConn was, at best, an afterthought.

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