The Last Defeated Team in Division I

The UNC women's team dropped their first game of the season last night. Is player blogging to blame?

My first reaction is to call it a good loss, releasing everyone from the pressure of a perfect season, and providing good late game experience against what will next week certainly be a Top 5 team. Of course, to anyone who just lost a triple-overtime grudge match, that's an incredibly stupid thing to say.

J.P. Giglio likes the increase in competitive balance, but the all-Tennessee-UConn-Duke-Carolina show is a pretty recent development to women's basketball. When I first started going to games, Virginia and N.C. State were the league powerhouses, and upsets were pretty common nationally. After all, a sixteen seed has actually upset a number one on that side of the aisle. There are more awful teams in major conferences than there are in the men's game, which often leads to the impression of a major talent gap, but there's also many more impressive no-name schools on the women's side. Lousiana Tech was often a number one team, after all. There's more competition than you think.

(And lest you think my question was anything other than facetious, Camille Little led the Heels in scoring with 24. But I've looking for an excuse to mention her online foray for awhile now.)