It's over a week old now, but I've been away. In case anyone missed it, Tennessee claimed their seventh national title last Tuesday night, beating Rutgers in the title game. Candace Parker is truly amazing. I watched her play against Stanford earlier in the year, and she dunked. It was great. The women's game has been a big deal in Knoxville for years, since the University of Tennessee focused on it early and built what many consider to be the dynasty and premiere program in all of women's college basketball. The experts have already picked Tennessee to win it all again next year, and I'm all for it. We won three national titles in a row -- '96 through '98 -- and this was our first since then. Another three peat would be great. [
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Is anyone aware of the Tennessee and UConn rivalry? [
] Tennessee has had the edge over the last three meetings, after six straight UConn wins, and Candace even dunked on the Lady Huskies' home court in Hartford back in January. Doing that to UConn -- on their home court -- was almost sweeter than our win. [
] Sorry, UConn fans, but Tennessee is dominant again.