This year's tournament showed that there are more than 8 good teams, there's more parity than ever.
This year's tournament showed that there are more than 8 good teams, there's more parity than ever.
I think the bigger news is Hailey Van Lith entering the portal. does she go to Stanford since they need a new scoring point guard now that Haley Jones is gone? or maybe to LSU to replace Alexis Morris since she was recruited hard by Mulkey when she was coach at Baylor before she chose Louisville? or does she go back home to Washington? whoever gets her will definitely have their stock jump.
I don't usually watch basketball at all so asking about women's basketball is misleading. Serious free agency tends to ruin team attachment in my opinion. Baseball and football are well served by keeping a core for 4-5 years if not longer. But, anyway, I watch a lot of soccer, and women's soccer is very compelling. The European clubs in particular have done a great job of developing talent and putting a great product on the pitch. The women's game could be improved if the ball were smaller, but that's another issue.
I bet more people watch the WNBA in America than watch 'professional' track meets in the US. Both in person and on TV.
Alan
Again. No
HVL is graduating with a finance degree next month. So she might be looking for an MBA program. I know she is an excellent student, but Stanford Business School is very tough to get in. There is a reason Stanford has had so few transfers. (Jordan Hamilton transferred from Northwestern a few years ago.) Is there an easier graduate program at Stanford that she might be interested in?
I think it would be interesting if she ended up replacing Grace Berger at Indiana. They would be a contender. Imagine a Final Four featuring teams with Clark, Bueckers, Reese and HVL. That will blow away this year's tv ratings.
Enough people watch to justify an American NCAA Women's basketball game in Paris next year apparently. Talk about getting recognized everywhere. This surprises even me. Remind me how many college track meets they hold in Paris? And I assume most Parisians will be Notre Dame fans?
It is official. HVL is going to LSU. They are also one of the three finalists for Aneesah Morrow.
Just saw this and was going to bring back this thread. The ratings are going to be impressive next year. The LSU/SC battles are going to be intense.
Wow, LSU will actually be good next year. This year they weren't even ranked pre-season and it was quite the miracle that they ended up winning.
Morrow most likely to USC (CAL) where she will be #1 option and can team up with JuJu Watkins to build something.
Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:
It is official. HVL is going to LSU. They are also one of the three finalists for Aneesah Morrow.
She should fit right into that hole Morris left. She really burns for a title clearly... It sure will be an interesting collection of personalities there but I guess if anyone can make that work its Mulkey. With Reese on the same team, NIL valuations for these two is going to be nuts.
Who would have thought this would work...
Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:
Who would have thought this would work...
Ive heard of that place. So glad they are doing so well. Would love to see a USWNT World Cup game there. Bet they proudly serve a lot of Bud Light 😂
Also something I saw recently thats worth mentioning even though its not basketball:
83,000 tickets sold to a women's volleyball game in 48 hours! For a game in August! That breaks the all time volleyball record by like 64,000!! They want to see if they can wedge in 10,000 more folks to break the all time womens sporting event record which they might be able to because they havent yet sold any of the field-level seating or indoor club seating.
Yet letsrun users, fingers in ears, will still make threads declaring no one cares about women's sports.
If I got stoopid drunk some night, then woke up the next day all zombied out and groggy, and I wanted to watch some basketball but the NBA version would be too faced-paced, compelling and exciting for my compromised central nervous system to process, I might watch women's basketball.
This is not basketball, but what a difference a decade makes!
Yes, global soccer governing bodies are (finally) starting to realize they shouldn't be giving away streaming/sponsorship rights for pennies on the dollar given the ratings of women's games.
Just had to post this here because I knew it would make all the letsrun racist misogynist's heads explode with fury. 😂 Capitalism!
I. Rex wrote:
Just had to post this here because I knew it would make all the letsrun racist misogynist's heads explode with fury. 😂 Capitalism!
They got tired of being proven wrong here so they created a new safe thread where they could ask if toddlers could beat an WNBA team to avoid the facts here.
Former Never Trumper wrote:
They got tired of being proven wrong here so they created a new safe thread where they could ask if toddlers could beat an WNBA team to avoid the facts here.
Just saw that. Absolutely hilarious. The "oh yeah? well we can beat them up!" response to undeniable female athletic success is so pathetic to watch. Do they also go to kids T Ball games and announce how terrible the players are because they are short and young and half a team of grown men could beat them easily? Maybe they will if those kids start making bank as well.
Empty stands wrote:
My guess is no! The stands are all empty. It’s comical. Yet espn wants to promote womens basketball to no end. Kinda sad. Women play inferior basketball to men and the games are boring
booooo
Yes. 9.9 million viewers for the NCAA title game. Any more sexist or stupid questions?