[BostonCard]

How the mighty have fallen.

I know we aren't awful. But it seems we are just north of mediocre. I was an undergrad in the heyday. Can someone who has followed the team more closely than I (who has followed the team casually) explain what has happened? I was used to it being UConn, Stanford, Tennessee, and then a Noter Dame or Baylor every year. Did everyone else just get better? Is this just a weird anomaly?

Please excuse my ignorance.

-m.

Since 2010, we have gone to the Final Four five times in eight years (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2017); in 2016 we made it to the Elite Eight, and we have not failed to reach the Sweet Sixteen since 2010.  We have won the Pac-12 in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and the Pac-12 championship in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017.

This is a down year (at least so far), but there is nothing to suggest that there is a structural problem with the program (beyond structural problems in women's college basketball due to UConn dominance).

BC

[BostonCard]

How the mighty have fallen.

I know we aren't awful. But it seems we are just north of mediocre. I was an undergrad in the heyday. Can someone who has followed the team more closely than I (who has followed the team casually) explain what has happened? I was used to it being UConn, Stanford, Tennessee, and then a Noter Dame or Baylor every year. Did everyone else just get better? Is this just a weird anomaly?

Please excuse my ignorance.

-m.

Since 2010, we have gone to the Final Four five times in eight years (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2017); in 2016 we made it to the Elite Eight, and we have not failed to reach the Sweet Sixteen since 2010.  We have won the Pac-12 in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and the Pac-12 championship in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017.

This is a down year (at least so far), but there is nothing to suggest that there is a structural problem with the program (beyond structural problems in women's college basketball due to UConn dominance).

BC