Pitarresi: UConn victory good ... and boring

I was so surprised Tuesday when Connecticut defeated Louisville for the women’s NCAA basketball title Tuesday.

 

Weren’t you?

 

Of course you weren’t. UConn’s victory was expected with the same certainty we expect the sun to rise in the morning. I have to credit Louisville, which had been blasted by UConn twice during the regular season, for hanging in nearly till halftime. The game was as bad as North Carolina-Michigan State in the men’s championship Monday, and even more predictable.

 

Hey, rumbling through a 39-0 season and not ever having a close game is something to crow about, and it should be honored. But, again, unless you are a Huskies fan, what kind of fun is that.?

 

UConn’s roughshod run through the season reminded me of small college power Trinity College’s 31-game football winning streak that ended in 2006. I’d like to have played on a team that could do that, but as great as it might feel, you have to wonder. If you’re a starter and you play maybe a half of football or less and you know before the game even starts that you are going to win – and except for a few games that’s my impression of the Bantams during that streak  – how much fun are you having?

 

I’m not saying I don’t want to win every game, but if the outcome is preordained, what the heck. It’s like the fly fisherman in the old story who goes to what he thinks is heaven and catches a big, big trout on every cast … time after time after time. A hell of a thing!

 

So, not to get too philosophical and all credit to UConn, but that game was no fun to watch.