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Message: [QUOTE="MSGRET, post: 4322440, member: 8506"] Some of the Men's games were on channels that are not available to everyone and they still played the games. I'm willing to bet that if Fox wins the NCAA will still make more money on the Women's tournament then what they are now getting from ESPN. What the removing of the Women's game from the bundling of the other 23 NCAA tournaments will do is force ESPN or whoever wins the bidding is to pay a fair market price for it. When the tournament games that were on ABC were shown in prime time it showed that people will watch it. Yes they didn't get the numbers that the Men's did, but I remember when I was growing up the Men's games at the time didn't get the viewers at the beginning either. It took years for it to build what they had. The Women's is starting to improve their viewership in the tournament and it should only get better when there is competitive bidding on it. [/QUOTE]