re: What level of men's basketball do you think could beat the UCONN women?

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What level of men's basketball do you think could beat the UCONN women?

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a good high school team.

Story time. When I first got to UGA our womens' team under Andy Landers was still nationally relevant. They were top 10 every year and usually expected to make the sweet 16 and beyond. Buddy of mine was a 6' white guy that was the 8th man on our high school basketball team, but he could play a little and was somehow (don't know the specifics here) asked by the women's team to be a part of a scrimmage squad, which I understand is common at many women's programs. Basically, staff members would hang out at the rec center and watch people play during open gym time or whatever and identify guys that looked like they played in HS and had some skills. They would get this ragtag group of dudes together a few times a week to conduct full scrimmages against our women's team. My buddy said that these guys would absolutely wear our women's team out. Run them up and down the court and basically had their way with them. I was skeptical at first but other guys I ended up befriending that were on this scrimmage team said the same thing. They said the difference in mens' and women's is just staggering and you don't really see it until the 2 go against each other.

Soooo while uconn right now is clearly the elite of the elite in women's basketball, I'm quite sure that a really good men's HS team could handle them. Your cousin's D3 team would demolish them.