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Daly Dose 04-10-24 UConn goes Back 2 Back!

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This week on the Daly Dose, the NCAA Tournament is now complete and we announce the winner of our 2024 Daly Dose Bracket Challenge!

We recap the NCAA Championship game and how the University of Connecticut was able to beat Purdue and win their second straight title!

John Calipari is leaving Kentucky for Arkansas, South Carolina was able to beat Caitlin Clark and Iowa to win the Women’s National Championship and Bronny James is putting his name in for the NBA Draft. Which team just might be targeting him? 

Then, we are handing out some end of year College Basketball awards! We hand out our own Player of the Year and Coach of the Year, but we also have some annual awards like the Arizona Award and the Kardashian Award to hand out too!

Finally, with the incredible ratings that both the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Tournament showed this year, we countdown the Top 5 most viewed college basketball games of all time!

Greatest basketball player ever reduced to huge loser in just one game

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It took just one game.

After a season of rewriting the record books and dominating the competition, it took just one game for the greatest player in basketball history to crash back to earth.

It was just back on March 3rd that Iowa women’s basketball superstar Caitlin Clark broke the 54-year-old NCAA record for scoring in Division 1A basketball.

Clark entered a game against Ohio State needing 18 points to pass Pete Maravich’s total of 3,667, amassed in just 83 games over three seasons at LSU (1967-70). Clark finished the game with 35 to run her total to 3,685 in 130 games.

Sports media outlets were on fire. “Is Caitlin Clark the greatest basketball player in history?”

That all changed on Sunday when the Iowa Hawkeyes were beaten in the National Championship.

Despite scoring 30 points, Iowa was beaten 87-75, and now Clark suffers the same fate as the Buffalo Bills, Dan Marino, Charles Barkley and Karl Malone.

“You made it to the title game, but since you lost that game, you are not actually second best. You are flaming hot garbage.”

Is Clark the greatest women’s basketball player of all time?

Comparing eras is always an exercise in futility, so that is impossible to say.

What can be said, is that there has never been a player before that has brought as many eyes to the women’s game, as Clark did this season.

The National Championship game on Sunday between Iowa and South Carolina smashed all television viewer records for the women’s game by pulling an incredible 18.7 million viewers.

As we have seen this week, the argument for greatest player of all time is short-lived and fickle.

What cannot be argued is that Caitlin Clark is the greatest viewer draw in the history of women’s basketball.

And it isn’t even close.

Daly Dose 04-03-24 Our Final 4 and National Championship preview

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This week on the Daly Dose, it is now April and that might mean something different to you depending where you live. We also update the Daly Dose March Madness bracket standings!

We discuss the Women’s Final Four now being set, and did Notre Dame get treated unfairly by the NCAA officiating crew in their Sweet 16 loss to Oregon State? Plus a Kansas City Chiefs player is in some trouble.

We are also handing out some winners and losers from the 2024 NCAA Tournament! We look at some of the best and worst in what has been a very exciting and unpredictable tournament, and one Big Ten team actually lands on our list as both a winner and a loser. 

Then, we preview the Final Four and make our prediction for who will advance to the finals. Can the Purdue Boilermakers continue their revenge tour after last year’s disappointment in the first round? Can North Carolina State keep their wild postseason alive? Will the Connecticut Huskies continue to dominate? Can the surprising Alabama Crimson Tide keep proving everyone wrong?

Finally our Daly Dose Top 5 is counting down the college basketball basketball coaches with the most NCAA Tournament wins that have never won a National Championship! 

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Daly Dose 08-09-23 Strength of schedules in the NFL and CFB

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This week on the Daly Dose, the NFL preseason kicked off last week and went about like we expected, except for one big surprise. 

The USWNT failed in spectacular fashion at the 2023 FIFA World Cup in Australia, the NCAA is seeing some massive realignment and the Pac 12 conference is a sinking ship. Plus, the NBA has seen some surprising free agent signings in the past few weeks. 

Then, we are taking a deep dive on the strength of schedule in both College Football and the NFL! Which teams are going to face the toughest competition and which teams could have an easier path because of a softer schedule? Finally, in the year 2023, which have been the best college football programs of the century so far? A few of the teams on our Daly Dose Top 5 might surprise you!