They have had pretty darn good crowds the last several years, so your "majority" reference is a dumb reach.
Women’s basketball viewership
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They have had pretty darn good crowds the last several years, so your "majority" reference is a dumb reach.
Same here and I had the DVR on ESPN and after a couple of minutes pregame of the uconns, I deleted it and set it for ABC. You lasted longer than I did.
I didn't start watching until the first quarter was over, so I would have missed it. Taped the other 3 Qs on ABC. Taurasi was especially disgusting. She hated seeing Iowa and Caitlin doing so well.
And she was the one harping about the correct call against Edwards on Friday night. Sue Bird didn't comment on it at that time that I saw.
This is a great clip.
ONE PERSON brought attention to a TEAM SPORT that NO ONE (ok, there were a few) had really been paying attention to.
ONE PERSON brought attention to a TEAM SPORT that NO ONE (ok, there were a few) had really been paying attention to.
For women's March Madness, the most popular teams on TV were also the biggest teams on social media.
Yeah, but this will BAU do nothing for recruiting and Iowa will go back to being a 2nd tier program now that Clark is gone.................................
Tbf, if this were any other men's sport that would absolutely be the case. 🫠
Stanford will be interesting going forward. Vanderveer retired, Brink graduated, Iriafen in the portal, PAC 12 dissolving/cross country alliance with ACC. Lots of headwinds for that program.
The resentnent is because cc is not black an is not lesbian. Not my opinion, just repeating what talking heads have been saying. Sad
This is the kind of thing we're seeing that makes me think numbers will stay up. Those kind of numbers for a regular season women's basketball game 2 years ago would have been ludicrous to imagine and CC had nothing to do with that game.
Personally, I think one of the unexpected byproducts of NIL is that women's players are getting a lot more visibility in today's NIL world. More people are learning names.
When I first started watching wbb, in that equation I was an Iowa fan first and a wbb fan a distant second. That was back in the Sam Logic years. Today, I find I enjoy wbb more than the men's game. I watched quite a few games this year that had nothing to do with Iowa. There were a lot of really good games this year.
They need to do something about the terrible officiating though.
We will never see astronomical numbers like this again, but the cat is out of the bag. People expecting Iowa women's basketball (and women's basketball in general) to fade back into the shadows will be disappointed.
What we should be discussing is why it has become so popular. I think it has something to do with the fact that basketball is a more exciting and beautiful sport with players who aren't enormous, jacked He-Men. The men's game has outgrown the dimensions of a small court and short hoop, whereas the women's game looks more like the men's game of the 1980s. It's far more exciting and aesthetically pleasing. That won't change.
What we should be discussing is why it has become so popular. I think it has something to do with the fact that basketball is a more exciting and beautiful sport with players who aren't enormous, jacked He-Men. The men's game has outgrown the dimensions of a small court and short hoop, whereas the women's game looks more like the men's game of the 1980s. It's far more exciting and aesthetically pleasing. That won't change.
Good observations. Many have said that women's bball more closely resembles what the game was designed to look like.
That said...I think there will be some settling back toward normal. The bar for "average" may be higher but outside of the Final Four and Iowa's games...most of the other women's programs were business as usual this year. Most people watched because of the CC phenom.
