This is pretty classic.

[Dudd]

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Yeah. I'll take the 2004-2005 UNC men's basketball team against whoever just won the WNBA title. I would bet my house and car on the Heels.

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Hell, I'll bet the house and car on whoever wins the Ivy League title.

[Colonel Kataffy]

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a woman who wants a women's professional league (WNBA, whatever the women's soccer league is, etc.). Then she'll give you a whole line of BS about how women are just as good as men and can compete at the highest levels just like the men can.

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But is it really possible to reason with someone like this?

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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a woman who wants a women's professional league (WNBA, whatever the women's soccer league is, etc.). Then she'll give you a whole line of BS about how women are just as good as men and can compete at the highest levels just like the men can.

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But is it really possible to reason with someone like this?

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A woman? No.

[Black Aces 518]

Yep. There was a story going around (unverified but I've heard it in several places from people who went to UConn) that the intramural champs would regularly scrimmage with the women's hoop team at a time when UConn's women's hoops team was DOMINANT.

The IM guys took them to pwntown every time.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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Yep. There was a story going around (unverified but I've heard it in several places from people who went to UConn) that the intramural champs would regularly scrimmage with the women's hoop team at a time when UConn's women's hoops team was DOMINANT.

The IM guys took them to pwntown every time.

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This reminds me of when I was I think a sophomore and they were getting a girls' hockey team going. This is of course not exactly the same as D-1 basketball, but the same kind of idea. I was slumming down in a D-league IM team just to play with a couple friends and we played the school's women's hockey team and they never got a shot on goal. This isn't even the school's club team or even a good IM team - this is the bottom bottom league for guys who have just learned how to play. I remember, about 30 seconds into the game, taking a slapshot from damn near center ice, scoring, and the whole women's team bitched at me for taking a slapshot. Apparently, that's not allowed in women's hockey.

[Pudge714]

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Yeah. I'll take the 2004-2005 UNC men's basketball team against whoever just won the WNBA title. I would bet my house and car on the Heels.

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I'll take any DI school over the WNBA all star team.

[MCS]

Have any of you all actually played basketball with WNBA players?

Cause I've played with some good D-1 women and they would beat most guys' brains in. People who think that a WNBA team would lose to an IM team are crazy.

And of course Van de Velde's idea is absurd. It's not the Men's British Open; it's just the British Open. It's not gender-restricted. Anybody who can qualify is welcome. The women's Open IS restricted. That's why he is an idiot.

[Black Aces 518]

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Have any of you all actually played basketball with WNBA players?

Cause I've played with some good D-1 women and they would beat most guys' brains in. People who think that a WNBA team would lose to an IM team are crazy.

And of course Van de Velde's idea is absurd. It's not the Men's British Open; it's just the British Open. It's not gender-restricted. Anybody who can qualify is welcome. The women's Open IS restricted. That's why he is an idiot.

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Most guys off the street? Yeah. A DI college team would obliterate a WNBA team. I would bet on the Texas boys state high school champs against the WNBA champs. The UNC thing was a joke, the girls would hardly score on UNC.

[MCS]

Well, UNC would obviously win. They had four legitimate NBA players. Even I can see that. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

As for the Texas comment, I would probably take the WNBA team. The exception would be if the HS team had a large excellent center, e.g. DeSagana Diop (when he was in HS), in which case I'd have to think about it.

I just always think people underestimate how good the women are.

[Black Aces 518]

Well, unfortuantely for these type of debates, the game will never occur, so it's just a big case of uh-uh and is-so. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

But I do think you are vastly underestimating the difference in athleticism and talent of the average Texas basketball boys champs' and WNBA players. The WNBA players would get posterized repeatedly.