Women's Hoops Blog

Inane commentary on a game that deserves far better


Monday, January 19, 2004

It was really a great week for women's college hoops. After a week like this, full of upsets, it's fair to start talking about the new level of parity in the game.

Notre Dame, Iowa State, Baylor, and Auburn pulled off huge upsets over top-10 teams. Purdue also defended its home court in a convincing win over higher-ranked Minnesota. There were even a couple road upsets, as unranked Florida beat #9 Georgia in Athens, and Houston knocked off TCU in the Frogs' own house.

Today we will see a fairly massive restructuring in the rankings. It will be Duke and Tennessee at the top, but after that, it's all up in the air. UConn, Texas, and Texas Tech all might fall into the bottom half of the top ten, and Minnesota might fall out of it. With two losses in a row, Georgia will slide pretty far.