Dayton shot 70% behind the arc 1st half but UCONN makes adjustments and comes out smoking. Changed pick and roll D and put in a hi lo action to begin the runaway 2nd half. UCONN player became the all time 3 ball shooter on the girls side with almost 400 3 s . Tough way to go down after such a stellar 1st half.

Alot of that has to do with the smaller ball though. I think if the men used the smaller ball their shooting percentages would skyrocket.

Shame the Flyers couldn't hold on. The girls tournament sure could use a Cinderella but instead we have four 1 seeds.

I am not sure of that logic as I heard it long ago.

A smaller ball in the same sized rim made sense when I first heard it but when I researched and talked to folks who designed the ball I found that it was designed with smaller hands in mind as the girls could not control the bigger ball.

So the idea intrigued me to the point that I had younger kids shoot with a bigger ball in shooting drills thinking that when they switched to the kids ball they would be in better shape. Same with the idea of using the Heavy ball we use for dribble, shooting and passing drills. It did not help my younger kids very much as they struggled to maintain form and not cheat using weak, immature and undeveloped musculature (the same reason I never let Tommy or my grade school kids shoot a jump shot till 8th grade and strong enough to build that shot from the ground up).

My current thinking is that girls are better shooters is because they are pure. They do not change the shot. Feet are set, there is not much acrobatics and they repeat the same shooting mechanics over and over. They do not have players flying at them to block to the degree we have in the mens game. Passing seems to be better as they execute plays better and rarely are passes a bail out from a guard who is in the air with no place to get rid of the ball. The womens game does not have the close out speed the mens does and defenses do not cover the same space on a 94 foot court that you see in the mens game. When you hear commentators talking about a kids length in the mens game that is the point they are talking about...the ability to defend a space with a 6'5 guard that has a 7 foot wingspan. Besides the girl from UCONN I saw last night and the one from Baylor last year...we do not see that length and mobility in the womens game. COncentration, reproducible and consistent shooting style seems to be easier to produce in the women's game for a variety of interesting and varied reasons.


Just my uninformed opinion.