Texas attendance will be improving a lot with the WBB on the rise. The improvement in the team has happened so fast, I don't think the public has caught up with it yet. Texas draws nearly a sell out to every home Women's volleyball game. The volleyball team has built quite a tradition the last few years, been to the last 4 or 5 final fours. WBB has long, deep roots in Texas. (My grandmother was playing basketball around 1915.) Every little town in this vast state has a girls' team that is on the same level as the boys' team in terms of community support. Surprisingly, there was never really any obvious sexism about it. It's just something girls did. In some towns, the girls eclipse the boys. In the 1950's, there were the famous "Flying Queens" of Wayland College, which was a veritable girls' Globetrotters. As mentioned above, UT drew crowds of 10,000 for big games back in the 80's. Along with Tennessee and LaTech, UT was among the first to really push women's sports after Title IX. Obviously, we haven't had a WBB culture like UConn for the last 20 years. But I think it's coming if we keep improving. Love of football runs very deep, but it's been hard to think of UT as a football power for quite some time now. People are looking for something else, and basketball is the ticket. Shaka Smart is doing for the men's team what Karen Aston is doing for the women's.
