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Unfortunate yet Fortunate

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 |

C. Vivian Stringer said that if this were a Final Four game she would have lost her job. The play in question was the final play of a hard fought 59-58 loss to Tennessee for the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers. With the Lady Knights leading by one it seemed that every women on the Lady Vol team had a chance to win the game. Candace Parker had two chances but couldn’t get it to go. Then the strangest thing happened it seemed that the clock stopped at .2 seconds to go. Allowing for a foul to be called giving the Vols a chance to “steal” a win. Nicky Anosike was the recipient of the foul and calmly stepped to the line and sank both free throws. Here is where everything else is great for a women’s basketball. On one hand yes it was terrible for a great game like this to end this way. On the other hand today that is what people are talking about. During a slow night in the NBA and men’s college basketball this could not have gone better. Now I will say that it is a shame that UConn and Tennessee are not playing a regular season game this year. In the past the two fierce rivals would square off on national television sometimes twice a year. That rivalry needs to come back and we need to see more games like this one.