I've gotten several e-mails asking why I haven't written anything women's basketball, and about how Candace Parker and Tennessee deserve my respect, and how women's college basketball is great, blah blah blah.

Fine. Congratulations to Tennessee, Candace Parker is great (I love the long sleeves), and women's basketball is fantastic. Happy?

Now, here's the real issue I wanted to address: in the future, will women's college basketball uniforms become more slutty or less slutty?

The pictures to your right are from the Division II Women's Championship game, featuring the Northern Kentucky University Norse against the University of South Dakota Coyotes. The young lady on the left is wearing the more traditionally cut South Dakota uniform, and the young lady on the right is in the slightly more revealing NKU Norse uniform.

I watched that game. It was on at the same time as the UCLA vs. Xavier Elite Eight men's game, and the ladies game had a ton more suspense and drama. Those uniforms caught my lecherous eye, too.

Now, it's just shoulders and back that we're seeing, and I'm not suggesting that we're on the brink of women's basketball games being played in wet t-shirts and crotchless panties. But I had never seen a women's basketball uniform cut so ... femininely ... before.

I wonder if it's the start of a trend.

To be clear, I'm not advocating this. These are young student athletes, and it would be a terrible thing for them to be paraded about like sex objects. I don't want to see that happen. And Lord knows, Stanley Pringle doesn't need another reason.

However, if you've been on a college campus recently, you know that quite a few members of the coed population go to great lengths to parade themselves around like sex objects. Maybe I'm the only one noticing this, but college women today make the college women of even five or ten years ago look like an Islamic fundamentalist broad on a trek through the Arctic Circle. If you've got more than 2 inches covered around the circumference on your nipple, you're pretty much a prude.

I wonder if this trend will find its way into women's athletics. Maybe there's a recruiting advantage to be had there. Clearly, a lot of young women have succumbed to the pressures placed on them by men and the media, and now want to dress like they're performing later that night at Club Skin.

Maybe if we shorten those shorts, tighten up the tops, expose a little midriff, and maybe get same team-branded sports/push-up bras, some team could find a recruiting advantage for themselves among talented young athletes who also want to be ogled.

Again ... not advocating, just wondering. Given the things we see in society today on a daily basis, it does not seem out of the question.

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