not surprising given the decreased attendance all over the country (the article talks about the men's games having a student section of 1,200 only filling with 5oo students now). but i thought this was interesting...
"Another part of the problem has been an underwhelming home schedule over the past several years due to a down ACC and marquee nonconference matchups moving to Madison Square Garden. Duke has played just three ranked nonconference teams in Cameron Indoor Stadium over the last four years, and only three ACC teams are currently placed in the Associated Press Top 25."
my recollection is that Duke won't do home and home games on another team's home court. maybe if they stopped being so stubborn they'd be able to do home/home series with more quality opponents.
UCONN women can't get everyone but aside from scairdy-cats tennessee, they've done home/homes with just about every other top team (Duke, UNC, Baylor, Stanford, and now Maryland) not to mention BE teams like ND, L'ville, RU, Georgetown, and Depaul who are often in the top 20 and sometimes top 10...