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The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) was founded in 1996 and began play in 1997. [1] The WNBA has kept a record of its win–loss statistics since its inception. There are currently 12 teams that play in the WNBA, and there are also six defunct WNBA teams accounted for in the league's win–loss records.
During the 1976 Summer Olympics, UPI described a 129–63 victory by the Soviet Union over Japan in men's basketball as "the most one-sided blowout of the current Olympic competition.". [25] In the highest scoring performance by any team in Olympic history, the U.S. men's basketball team beat Nigeria 156–73 in the 2012 Olympics. [26]
The Connecticut Huskies cemented their place as a program that could compete at the highest level of NCAA women's basketball. The Huskies joined the 1985–86 Texas Longhorns as the only two teams to complete a season an unbeaten National champions. UConn would return to the Final Four in 1996, but watched as Tennessee not only won the title in ...
The ACC was rife with women's basketball upsets Thursday as three ranked teams fell to unranked opponents, including No. 4 NC State in a blowout. ... Duke secured another blowout upset in a 63-46 ...
An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, a single-elimination tournament, this generally constitutes a lower seeded team defeating a higher-seeded (i.e., higher-ranked) team; a widely recognized upset is one performed by a team ranked substantially lower than its opponent.
A women's college basketball team been able to overcome more than a 30-point deficit only one other time. Texas State overcame a 32-point deficit against the University of Texas-San Antonio on Feb ...
February 27 – In Lamar's 97–49 blowout of Houston Baptist, Barrs collected 10 steals to give her the record for career steals in Division I women's basketball. She ended the game with 627, surpassing the previous record of 624 by Natalie White of Florida A&M (1991–95).
"Coach was saying this might be a blessing in disguise and widens our eyes a little bit."