Theory on the Demise of the Streak

The longest winning streak in College Basketball is over. Thursday night, the UConn womens streak was halted by the Stanford Cardinal. I never wanted it to end, but if it was going to end, it was great that it was by my hometown college. Stanford played great, but I believe UConn threw the game.

In a news conference earlier this year Coach Geno Auriemma claimed that he would quit UConn and move on to find a challenge if his team did not lose in 2010. His team just happened to lose on their last game of the season, and I don't believe this is any accident. I saw Maya Moore, the womens equivalent of Kobe Bryant, missing wide open shots. Her missing open jumpers is the equivalent of Shaq missing an open dunk; it just doesn't happen.

They lost this team because it was actually relatively unimportant. They had already broken the 88 game streak previously held by UConn and it was a mid-season game. This lose will have no consequences. Barring a lot of losses during the regular season, UConn will still head to March Madness with a #1 seed. They will go there with their current head coach instead of a new one.

The only con in this loss is that the spotlight that was held on womens basketball will disappear as their is "nothing" excited to watch.

By Arjun Parikh