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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 4179872, member: 591"] Barnes entered a deal with Turner-Thorne to get teams to come out and play - offering 2 games - Marist was the particular team this year that entered into a deal to play in both Tempe and Tucson. Before Arizona won the WNIT - lots of good teams wanted to come out and play, but largely, as Adia said, there was no benefit to playing a much better team until we were able to play with them, and they were seeing an easy win. Once we won the WNIT, a lot of the better teams didn't want to play us. Adia discussed at a fan event how much heat she was under to get a better schedule, and she mentioned some of the teams that said "no thanks". It comes down to how much Arizona will pay and one of the teams she specifically mentioned that pays well to attract teams is Oklahoma. She mentioned dollar amounts. It is a whole different world. [/QUOTE]