I bet Butler High graduate and Fenelton native Olivia Bresnahan never saw anything like

that on the high school basketball courts of Western Pennsylvania.While the Tornado girls basketball hoop star saw plenty of tough competition from the Mount Lebanons, New Castles and Bethel Parks of the WPIAL, I’m sure nothing could compare to the level of play she saw Tuesday night when she faced the University of Connecticut as a freshman guard on the Florida State women’s basketball team.Bresnahan logged quite a few minutes in that 93-62 blowout loss to the Huskies, who won their 89th consecutive game, by the way.In case you have been living in a government-run Biosphere project since birth, that’s a NCAA record, besting the 88-game winning streak by the UCLA men’s basketball team from 1971-74.It’s a shame, though, that the comments made by UConn coach Geno Auriemma earlier in the week have largely overshadowed this accomplishment.A bigger shame is what Auriemma said is absolutely true.While the media has been swarming all over Connecticut and the streak as it climbed into the 80s, Auriemma was correct to say the attention only came because the Huskies were poised to break a men’s record.In a way, ESPN proved his point by airing the UConn-Florida State record-breaking game on “The Deuce,” while the Beef ’O’ Brady’s Bowl, pitting college football immortals Louisville and Southern Miss, got top billing on its flagship.Had this been a men’s UConn team getting set to break UCLA’s mark, it would have been wall-to-wall on SportsCenter. The coverage would have been downright Brett Favre-ish.Auriemma is right. Often times, women’s sports don’t get their just due.And they should because they are pretty darn good.I remember my days at Kent State when I skipped a night class to go see the Golden Flashes women’s basketball team play in a big Mid-American Conference game. I remember climbing in my 1989 Geo Prizm, with the windows held shut by duct tape, and driving to State College to watch KSU play in the NCAA Tournament.Give me a women’s basketball game over a men’s one any day. On the high school court, I see better fundamentals from the young women than the men these days.Aruguably, the best basketball players produced in Butler County in the past 10 years — girls like Bresnahan, Jence Rhoads at Slippery Rock and Kim Nowakowski and Amy Achesinski at Butler — have been female.Hopefully, more and more accomplishments by female athletes and teams will get the play that they deserve.And not rendered as second fiddle to the Pinstripe Bowl.Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.