I congratulate UConn men’s basketball on their sixth win. However, it most shouldn’t make people forget about the UConn’s even more accomplished women’s basketball team, which even has the record for most NCAA Division I women’s basketball championships. The six time championship winning UConn men’s basketball is swell, and may win the title again next year, but it next least five more moments of championship gold before it can even tie the eleven time championship winning UConn women’s basketball team. Yale is clearly not the elitist school for basketball in the state of Connecticut. But UConn women’s and men’s basketball would begin their winning dynasties when Yale law school graduate was President, with the women’s team first winning in 1995 and the men’s team first winning in 1999. It even extended when Clinton’s Yale best buddy Dick Blumenthal has continued to remain in politics through Connecticut as the state’s Attorney General and later its senior U.S. Senator. Blumenthal is an example of how children of Nazi Germany survivors can succeed in helping their community, and the Connecticut college teams that have done good for state in basketball sure don’t represent his alma mater Yale, which has historically even been stereotyped as a power elitist school. I also congratulate the South Carolina Gamecocks who with three championship wins have now tied for the third most NCAA Division I basketball championship. Like the Gamecocks, the UConn men’s team also tied for the third most NCAA Division I wins in their own gender-related NCAA basketball category.
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