Perfection..Why You Never Saw It

31 points per game in the regular season. 25.6 points per game in the NCAA Tournament.

That is how much the University of Connecticut Women's Basketball Team won on average against every single opponent. On Tuesday night, the Lady Huskies beat the Louisville Cardinals 76-54 to capture their sixth NCAA title and complete a 39-0 undefeated season. Perhaps the greatest team in women's college basketball history, the Lady Huskies won every single game by double digits, something never before accomplished, not just in women's college basketball, but college basketball - period. And get this:

During the regular season, the UConn women trailed for only one possession during the entire year in a game against Oklahoma. One possession.

The closest games the entire season for the Lady Huskies were two wins by a margin of ten points, that's it. There have only been five undefeated teams in the history of women's college basketball and UConn has three of them in the past decade, but none finer than this team. Their closest game in the entire NCAA Tournament, a field of elite college basketball teams, was 19 points.

Throughout the season, sophomore Maya Moore and senior guard Renee Montgomery have had a chip on their shoulder after being upset last season by Stanford in the Final Four. They bulldozed through each game with the same tenacity, same desire, same passion as the last, determined to capture that title.

What amazes me about this whole situation is the relatively lack of little coverage on the media's part. As the title game grew closer, ESPN began running more coverage on it, but it dwelled in comparison to the hype of North Carolina-Michigan State. Just look at massive differences in attendance between the two games (which also has to do with the size of the stadium).

Men's title game (sold out): 72,922
Women's title game (not sold out): 18,478

That is almost a 54,000 person difference between the two games and I don't know about you, but I would rather see a team make history by capping off an undefeated season in dominant fashion than watch a game with little meaning except to the fans of those two teams. Even more shocking was when I went to Yahoo's homepage and clicked on sports. UConn completing an undefeated season, winning every game by an aveage of over 30 points per game, has to be the featured story right? Wrong.

What came up was the story about how Michael Jordan's son chose to play college ball at the University of Central Florida. It has just within the past couple of hours changed to a story about the Masters. Why is this unbelievable story not on the front page of every sports website and newspaper? In a time when parity creeps into every single sport in America, a team that completely dominates every single opponent has to be worthwhile news. But, it is a fact that a majority of this country can be viewed as cynics and pessimists, who will view the glass half empty.

This country, who doesn't follow sports very closely will look at the dominance of this team and state that women's college basketball is a joke and that there is no good talent, that UConn basically had a free pass throughout the entire season. Try telling that to the girls who pour their heart and soul into these teams, the coaches who mold and develop this girls into women, whom 95% of us couldn't be in a game of one-on-one. Don't sit there and tell me that this undefeated season of dominance is due to no competition for the Lady Huskies because it is everywhere.

These girls simply outstrategized, outplayed, outthought, outhustled and beat everyone they faced into a bloody pulp. This is bigger than the Masters, which doesn't even start until Thursday, bigger than the MLB, which has a whole season to go, bigger than the men's title game, which is already done with and it is definitely bigger than what school Marcus Jordan decided to play college basketball for. This is a story about a group of girls who put everything that had into a season and turned it into one of the greatest seasons in sports history. Not just college history, but all of sports. When you can take your opponent, no matter if they are ranked or not, and make them tap out each and every game, with that big red bullseye tagged and painted on your back, it is truly something special.

UConn got the best from every single team they faced and hardly anyone knew about it. More people know about what color belt Roy Williams like to wear during Final Four games than they knew about this Lady Huskies team and it makes me sick, as a propriator of great athletes. Maybe if ESPN could change their titles of men's and women's college basketball to that, instead of "College Basketball" and "Women's Basketball", inferring that women don't deserve to have the college in their description, than maybe stories like this won't get buried behind the mediocre stories that "sell" the show.

Congratulations UConn Lady Huskies for all of your accomplishments this season. No one can take that away from you, not the media, not the public, not anybody. Enjoy it, you deserve every ounce of spotlight.