The great fault with women's fast-pitch softball is the same one that signaled the virtual end of the once-popular men's sport in the past century.
It's too "fast-pitch." Male underarm slingers became too overpowering (and besides, the men had baseball).
As might be expected — with the distance a mere 43 feet from the pitcher's rubber to home plate — it's now set up for Wonder Woman to skew the balance. Give Olympic gold medalist Jennie Finch a quick-handed catcher and seven Wooden Indians and she's money in the bank.
And so it is in the Big Ten.