Women's basketball coaches respond to the CWA's recommendation to ban male practice players.

"This is the politically correct gone awry," said MSU coach McCallie. "It's absolutely absurd. It's short-sighted. It's got nothing to do with equity and everything to do with politics."

"It is critical to the success of our program," said Iowa State coach Fennelly. "The No.1 thing we're trying to do is grow the sport. I would bet 90 percent of the coaches and all of our players all think it's tremendous."

Iowa coach Bluder said the NCAA doesn't understand how the men are actually used. "They have some preconceived notions about how we use our male practice players." She scoffed at the notion that non-starters don't develop because the men take their place. "I think you would be pretty silly to practice like that."

Bluder had her team vote on the issue before this season. The players were unanimous.