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If you are a fan of WCBB, and you look at all the empty seats in arena after arena, and you observe the fact that the WNBA is on life support, you have to be concerned for the game in general. The only way this problem is going to be solved, to get more people interested, is to generate more parity on the college level. But the gulf that exists between programs is so much more than just a recruiting issue. I find it disappointing to see how poorly some supposedly elite programs fail to develop high quality talent.
I recall watching the McDonalds All-Star game when Elizabeth Williams was a senior. She was the best player on the floor. Duke is a perfectly fine place to attend college, and there may have been a hundred and one good reasons for her to choose to go there, but is there anyone who doubts where she would be as a basketball player today if she had chosen UConn, or ND, or even Stanford? It may not matter to her, but purely in basketball terms she's been let down by a program that didn't have the skills to develop her game!
I recall watching the McDonalds All-Star game when Elizabeth Williams was a senior. She was the best player on the floor. Duke is a perfectly fine place to attend college, and there may have been a hundred and one good reasons for her to choose to go there, but is there anyone who doubts where she would be as a basketball player today if she had chosen UConn, or ND, or even Stanford? It may not matter to her, but purely in basketball terms she's been let down by a program that didn't have the skills to develop her game!