Many viewers ignore women's basketball games unless their school is playing or there is a marquee game between recognizable names. The coaches are conscious of selling the sport, and UCONN is a huge attraction for the casual sports fan. I'd add that the schools playing top teams like UCONN benefit from a game against a top tier team. I expect that we'll keep playing them - especially since I doubt that they're going away for a while.

if we left UConn to a shitty conference and a lousy non-conference schedule, they would go away soon enough.

Without the bigotry at least.

They have favorable treatment because they earned it.

The last two years have shown more parity but UConn is still the brand name for Women's BB.

Keep beating them if you want them to go away/come back down from their place on the mountain.

And this is said with no love for them or their program. I would be happy if they last in the next round.

that UConn represents. And to do it just to screw over the Huskies sounds like a horrible reason. What terrible karma!

UConn fans travel well and really care about their team and WBB in general. Why destroy their fanbase (as if we could anyway)? If Muffet chose that route and a few other top programs followed her lead, there would always other teams that would not ostracize Geno and he would always have a challenging OOC schedule. And then we would have lost a great challenge that the whole sport looks forward to for no reason other than personal spite. That would diminish our program in my eyes. I love that Muffet has never backed down from Geno. Her team has never feared the name on the jersey (like most top programs) because of Muffet's unflinching demeanor. To shrink away from a challenge now would be the wrong thing to do on so many levels.