Utah, Are You Happy Caitlin Clark Beat Team USA?

Shower Thought 7/22/2024

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There's a common rule in high school and college sports that most coaches follow. Tie goes to the senior. If two players are pretty much the same in talent, and one of them is a senior, you give the starting spot to the senior. They've been in the program longer, they've sacrificed more, they're probably more respected in the locker room, and have sold more candy bars for fundraisers to get new uniforms etc. However, if it's not a tie you go with the better player regardless of age. This is something every high school coach in America understands.

A coach who doesn't understand it? Cheryl Reeve US Women's basketball coach. She and Team USA got their butt kicked this weekend by Caitlin Clark and a bunch of other youngsters who were too inexperienced to make the Olympic team. Caitlin clark had 10 assists, Angel Reese had a double-double Arike Ogumbawale went off for 34 points. Team USA is a cadre of older players who boxed out Clark and Reese so they could get some attention for themselves. They're going to win the Gold Medal over all the jv countries in the Olympics but they've already proved they're not the best team in their own country.

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The Utah city with the lowest divorce rate is...

It's Provo/Orem, UT.

The Provo-Orem area has the lowest divorce rate in the country.

According to llcattorney.com:

"The Provo-Orem area of Utah has the lowest divorce rate in the country at 5.7%. Utah County, where Provo and Orem are located, has the highest percentage of Mormon residents in the state. The divorce rate among Latter-day Saints is generally slightly lower than other religions." (Link to full article)

The Provo area is not only the lowest, it's the lowest by a fairly wide margin. The next area on the list, Laredo, TX, is 1.1% higher. And then the other cities are all within a decimal or so of the preceding cities. So a 1.1% jump is pretty big from first place to second place.

The highest divorce rates in the country belong to Medford, OR (15.8%), Dothan, AL (15.1%) and Fort Smith, AR-OK (15.1%)

Here's a pretty good contextualizing comment from u/illdieyoung:

"I’ve seen a lot of hypothesizing like this in the thread. Mostly claiming it has to do with married couples at BYU and UVU.

There are around 303,000 married people in the Provo-Orem metropolitan area. BYU and UVU combined have about 72,000 students. Even if you assume 50% of students at those schools are married (which is higher than the numbers I quickly found) that is 18,000 out of 303,000 marriages for college students. Not a tiny amount but also shows that’s it’s not just college students."

Another contributor could be that people get married young at UVU/BYU and then move away and if they get divorced it won't count against Provo-Orem.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments!