By Matthew Waxman

On Sunday afternoon you'll probably be planted on the couch tracking your football fantasy scores and switching between the Steelers-Bengals game and what seems like easy money with the Colts being favored by only 15 1/2 point over the Texans. The A List won't nag you about wasting away indoors as the last touch-football weather breezes by; there'll be warm weather again come April. But there's sports history being made on Fox and Tony Siragusa's yap can't do anything to spoil it.

Women have no hops? Don't tell that to Tennessee's Candace Parker. Bill Frakes/SI

This Sunday at 3:30 p.m. (ET) on Fox Sports Network, the No. 1 ranked Tennessee Volunteers (5-0) women's basketball team travels to Palo Alto to take on 11th-ranked Stanford, which has a 23-game home winning streak. That alone is certainly not enough to change your tune (or tuner), but this should: Sunday will be the first ever meeting between two of the biggest names in women's college basketball: Candace Parker and Candice Wiggins.

Separated by 2,500 miles and a one-letter difference in their first names, the two spectacular athletic talents will change the way you think about women's basketball. Fairly or unfairly, women's hoops takes a beating for what it is not, namely not being men's basketball. However, these girls not only can play with the boys, but also can stick it to them as the 6-3 Parker showed by dunking over Tennessee's 6-9 forward Ryan Childress recently in a pick-up game. And Wiggins, an explosive 5-11 junior guard, was the first Pac-10 player to be named conference Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year in the same season, while averaging 17.5 points and leading the team to a 32-3 record and an NCAA Elite Eight appearance.

Like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson in the '80s, Candace and Candice, both former high school first-team All-Americas and Ms. Basketballs of their respective states (Illinois for Parker, Cali for Wiggins), will be asked not just to shoulder the load for their teams but also for their sport. And like Bird and Magic, despite their different positions and styles of play, the two will be intrinsically linked because of their excessive talents. In fact, when the dynamic duo played together two summers ago on the USA Basketball's U19 World Championship qualifying team, they were dubbed "Ace" and "Ice" by their teammates. Through a handful of games this season, at least statistically speaking, the two have done plenty to solidify the rivalry.

So do yourself a favor and plan your Sunday around women's hoops. Yeah, we said it. When these two girls are carving up the WNBA in a few years, angling their respective teams to collide once again in the finals, you can say you remember watching the game that started it all. You were there before everybody else was on board. Or you could watch the Bengals.