Last January, I made the trek to Hartford, Connecticut to watch the then-#1 and would-be-National Champion Villanova Wildcats take on the four time National Champion UConn Huskies.
During the pregame bar crawl, I was told by a fellow Villanova fan that, when sharing her plans for the day with some locals, she was met with confused looks as “the women’s team isn’t playing today.”
Well, no.
The women’s team was not playing that day. But, the men’s team, who have won two national championships in the last decade, was playing...the #1 team in the country.