The rise of women's basketball

We all know that our ladies had a season we will remember forever. And I have a feeling next year might be even better.

But this is more about the emergence of the women's game in general.

https://theathletic.com/4378088/2023/04/03/iowa-lsu-womens-national-cham...

The national championship game between LSU and Iowa absolutely crushed not just the usual ratings for a WCBB game, but a significant number of other sporting events (all of Amazons Thursday night NFL games, every Stanley Cup game for decades, most NY6 bowls that's are not the playoffs, NBA Final games...the list goes on)

I'll admit, I watched more of the womens tournament this year then I ever had. And while a good deal of that clearly had to do with our team, I just found the games to be a bit more interesting (even though the officiating was terrible). Is it because we see good players actually play for 4-5 years and teams build chemistry that has in effect disappeared from the men's game? Is it because we are seeing women that are seriously talented (Kitley, Clark, Amoor, Boston, et all)? Is it because they had an actual Goliath (SC) team and people wanted to see them lose?

Just enjoying the fact that the sport seems to be gaining some serious momentum, and our program seems primed to ascend to the upper tier at exactly the right time.

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