I don’t like comparison of men’s and women’s basketball. Pat Summitt’s coaching wins shouldn’t be ranked alongside John Wooden’s. If there’s a list of all-time Final Four participants, there should be a women’s list and a men’s list. I think it’s unfair to call it a “basketball” list. If that’s the case, then include the NAIA or a foreign league as well.

But I do realize the game, at its core, can be compared. Free throws are free throws. The basket is still 10 feet high. And more importantly, a great game is a great game, no matter the gender.

With one more to go — the men’s national championship game Monday night — the Final Four has been a little lopsided in that category. The women had three amazing games. So far, the men are 0-for-2.

The two women’s semifinals both went to overtime and each was compelling drama. Especially the second semi, when UConn lost on a last-second shot by Notre Dame’s Arike Ogunbowale (don’t worry about trying to pronounce it) — the second straight year that mighty UConn has failed to make it past the semifinals.

Certainly nothing could out do that, right? Wrong. Notre Dame did it again Sunday and again it was Ogunbowale, who hit a a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Irish the win over Mississippi State. (Of course, the referees ruined the spontaneous celebration by putting a useless 0.1 seconds back on the clock and forcing some MSU players to come back out of the locker room.)

Here’s hoping that the Michigan-Villanova game can come close to living up to that drama in San Antonio. The only truly compelling thing about either semifinal was Villanova’s amazing 3-point shooting, which was spectacular. But the Wildcats look to be much the best, which is strange. We always here how the men’s game has such great parity and how the women’s game is UConn and everybody is playing for second.

Looks like the men’s Final Four is playing for second this year.