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COMMENTARY
Nothing to lose this weekend
Hans didn't need any more proof of the hypocrisy filling the offices of 700 W. Washington St. in Indianapolis, but they got more anyway. That's the headquarters of the NCAA, by the way, and the hypocrisy is the post-season conference basketball tournaments.
tournaments
The Big 12 regular season was 16 games and lasted nearly 12 months. The best team was crowned champion, and now what? We have another three or four games to decide a 'conference tournament champion.' Name another sport — at any level — that finishes a regular season with a conference or division tournament before the actual playoffs start. You can't, because it doesn't happen.
cant, because the NCAA, but In the NCAA, the term 'student athlete' is championed around to cover up the real term for basketball players: cash cows. That's where conference tournaments come into play. But don't take my
BY KORY CARPENTER
kcarpenter@kansan.com
word for it.
And he was right.
"Conference tournaments," North Carolina coach Roy Williams once said, "are nothing more than a big cocktail party for the alumni."
And he was right. A conference tournament championship is more prestigious than a Tuesday afternoon scrimmage win but well behind a regular season conference title. It's somewhere in the middle of those two.
Unless, of course, your team is on the bubble and needs to win the conference tournament to clinch
an NCAA tournament berth. That's just another case of the NCAA adding significance to an otherwise insignificant event in an attempt to legitimize it.
Also, if you're reading this, you probably a Kansas basketball fan. And there's a great chance you don't remember Kansas ever missing the big dance, so you've never needed the Jayhawks to win the conference tournament to avoid the NIT.
While Texas Tech, Iowa State, and Oklahoma are battling for the conference tournament championship and the automatic NCAA bid this week, just know that Kansas' fate is all but sealed before the party starts on Wednesday. So take your old coach's advice and enjoy a cocktail, because a No. 1 seed is all but locked up already.
Edited by Becca Harsch
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UConn clinches Big East
HARTFORD, Conn. — Stefanie Dolson scored 24 points and Maya Moore added 22 to help No.1 Connecticut win its fourth straight Big East tournament championship with a 73-64 victory over 10th-ranked Notre Dame on Tuesday night.
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UConn (32-1) has won 20 straight games since losing to Stanford on Dec. 30 to snap the Huskies' record 90-game winning streak. It was the 21st time in the past 23 seasons that they were in the championship game.
While UConn has been a frequent visitor to the tournament title game, Notre Dame was making its first trip to the championship since 2001 when the Irish lost to UConn on a buzzer-beater by Sue Bird.
The Huskies have won 17 Big East championships overall.
The Irish still have yet to win a
championship in five attempts.
Natalie Novosel scored 17 points to lead Notre Dame (26-7).
Leading 41-40 early in the second half, UConn went on an 11-0 run to break open a close game.
Moore, who earned tournament MVP honors for the second time in her stellar career, had three points and two assists during the burst. She also had a huge block on Skylar Diggins' drive that led to an easy layup on the other end by Bria Hartley.
Moore followed that with a 3-pointer from the corner with 12:44 left to cap the spurt and tie her with Penn State great Kelly Mazzante for ninth place on the career NCAA scoring list with 2,919 points.
2,915 points
Notre Dame didn't go away, going on a 15-6 spurt to close to 58-55 with 5:07 left. Novosel, who had left the game at the end of UConn's spurt, returned a few minutes later and scored the final
seven points of the Irish burst.
The Irish couldn't get within five the rest of the game.
seven points of Moore wouldn't let Notre Dame get any closer, hitting a jumper from the corner to move past Mazzante. Dolson followed with a layup to restore the seven-point lead. The 6-foot-5 freshman center matched her career-high set two days earlier against Georgetown.
five the rest of the game.
Moore became only the second two-time MVP of the tournament, joining former UConn great Kara Wolters (1995 and 1996). Moore also won the award as a sophomore. She became just the second player in conference history to win both the regular season and postseason MVP awards in the same year. Shelly Pennefather of Villanova was the only other player to do it.
It was the Huskies' 81st consecutive victory at home and 69th straight conference win.
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