UConn women in different league

THE FUNNIEST show on TV may be SNY’s Connecticut women’s basketball postgames, during which threeperson discussion and analysis is provided to explain why and how UConn won by 40.

➤ Between us, a Super Bowl thought: Multi-tasking Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman was a quarterback at Kent State, where he threw 30 touchdown passes. Again, just between us.

➤ Watching and listening to grown men on ESPN, FOX Sports 1 and the Big Ten Network swoon and gush and analyze as to where teens decided to play college football, as per Thursday’s Signing Day, was both pathetic and now, unsurprising.

➤ Sweet matchup on ESPN2 on Wednesday: Baylor-Kansas, both school’s student-athletes suspected of group-participation in or group-attendance at rapes. Jayhawks basketball coach Bill Self complained that it has become “a major distraction” — as if it shouldn’t.

➤ Wednesday, with 3:48 left, Penn State, as shown on BTN, was killing Indiana in significant stats — points off turnovers (19-11), assists (18-8) and turnovers (Indiana had 14, Penn State 11). So what that the Hoosiers were winning, 67-63.

➤ Reader Joe Dobies asks why baseball players, unlike wide receivers, make “leaping catches” instead of “high-pointing the ball.”

➤ We hear Alain Vigneault’s contract extension to coach the Rangers includes a sweetener: Jimmy Dolan has waived the $5 “facility fee” to enter the Garden.

➤ Monday here, I noted that after a hard fall, Notre Dame’s Matt Farrell helped up Georgia Tech’s Josh Okogie, then the two slapped hands. Reader Dave Distefano: “Wouldn’t it have been awesome if TV showed that in slow motion before the next commercials rather than chest-pounding and into-the-camera scowls?”