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Tate: Coaches walk fine line

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There’s a growing trend of unhappiness in women’s college basketball.

At the top level, fans and administrators are rankled by the lopsided nature of the NCAA championships where UConn wins every game, year after year, by double figures.

In the Midlands, we have upheaval ... a crisis of women’s complaints about coaching abuse. Count ’em, and this is just in the nation’s breadbasket within recent days.

— Illinois: Seven former squad members settled for $375,000 to resolve their suit claiming a racially hostile environment. This resolution came despite consecutive investigations by the UI and a Chicago law firm that found the improprieties were minor.