She seemed a sensible sort for quite a while but the temptation - egged on by the press - to lecture on ‘gender equality’ is just too great. None of the lefties will notice that the PC lecture got 200x more coverage than any of the tournament - once again, they defeat their own aims.
Nobody can really explain what the hell it means - more accurately, nobody will admit that all it means is equality of outcome which, of course, is not equality at all.
It also ignores the fact that - gasp - men know more and probably always will about men competing in sports, which is why men coaching men makes more sense and produces better outcomes.
As for the game, it had the same problem that the men’s game does - 35 min of game and 5 min of coaches taking their egos out for trot and calling incessant timeouts so they can draw on white boards. The final play of the game was a laughable indictment of college basketball and the women’s game in particular with missed shots, dodgy foul calls and the game ending on...a flubbed inbounds play. Wheee.
Here’s a question for all basketball coaches: if you’re as good as they say you are and as good as you believe, why don’t your teams know what to do in the last 2 min of a game just as they do in the first 2 min of a game? If you’re such a wonderful strategist, film watcher and planner, why does all of it go out the window as you literally draw it up during a timeout? It’s a huge contradiction that nobody in the game and certainly nobody in the media - mostly ex-coaches themselves - will point out.
I can think of a few good reasons to call timeouts in the final minutes.
The first, and you see it in football too, is to “ice” a player shooting free throws or kicking a field goal.
Another reason is things change during the game. You can have the greatest plays drawn up, but you have to take into consideration who’s in foul trouble, who can afford to foul an opponent, who’s the poorest free-throw shooter to foul on the floor, who’s shooting lights out to take the final shot, how many fouls do we have to give before three throws are shot (in the Virginia game Auburn had 2 to give in the final minute). Time outs drive me crazy too sometimes, but they’re necessary.
Another reason is to rest your players, even if it’s just for 4 minutes. Some players play all 40 minutes. It amazes me how those guys can run up and down the court, play defense, block shots and sometimes land on their backs or worse—I’d be exhausted after 5 min.