89 in a Row

I just finished watching the UConn women's basketball team win their record setting 89th win in a row, and doing it in typical fashion: a 30+ point margin of victory over a ranked team, Florida State. Congratulations to the Lady Huskies for this remarkable achievement.

While out and about yesterday afternoon, I heard Joe Starkey and Josh Miller discussing this topic on The Fan, and Starkey took the position that an "average" boys high school team would beat the Connecticut women and beat them handily. Miller took issue with this and cited an instance of when he was playing football at the University of Arizona, a group of the Arizona football players, played a pick-up game with the Arizona women's team, a middle of the pack Pac-10 women's team. The football players, Miller noted, had their heads handed to them by the ladies.

Starkey still maintained his position, and used the following example: the Schenley High School championship team of a few years back that featured DeJuan Blair. I will give you that a good high school boys team that featured DeJuan Blair (or that team in Akron a few years back that featured LeBron James) no doubt would beat the Lady Huskies, but Starkey's original premise was that an average boys high school team (and he even gave it a yinzer spin by saying an average boys WPIAL team) would soundly beat the UConn women.

Well, I happen to like Joe Starkey, but on this issue, I think he's out to lunch. An average high school boys basketball team would have no shot against the current Lady Huskies. That's my take on it.

Agree or disagree?