Promoting Women's College Basketball...An All-star Game

[LwrcasefaN]

There are many really good players that fans don't see as often for many reasons. I would like to see an Allstar game or even a mini tournament (2 days max) with 2-4 teams. Maybe the top four vote-getters for NPOY can serve as Captains and select teammates from a pool of other players. What do you think?

 

[TC22]

I don’t think there’s anyway they can do it. You wouldn’t want to do it during the season because they need to be with their teams. After the season you have girls trying out for USA teams and then you had the WNBA draft so that pulls those kids out. My suggestion is that people should just watch games.

 

[sun]

I doubt that the players would be compatible with each other or have an incentive to participate.
What would be their incentive to play their best and to win?
The whole proposition seems to be based on a profit motive for the benefit of the sponsors.
Player/Captains don't usually ever assemble teams, coaches do and then manage the teams as they see fit.
These players are young adults and not managers, and who knows what their ulterior motives could be.
Who would pay for the players airfare and all of the other expenses?

 

[LwrcasefaN]

I doubt that the players would be compatible with each other or have an incentive to participate.
What would be their incentive to play their best and to win?
The whole proposition seems to be based on a profit motive for the benefit of the sponsors.
Player/Captains don't usually ever assemble teams, coaches do and then manage the teams as they see fit.
These players are young adults and not managers, and who knows what their ulterior motives could be.
Who would pay for the players airfare and all of the other expenses?

Not sure what you mean by compatible. Expand on that if you wouldn't mind. The incentive is as I suggested to grow the game. The game they say they love. Every tournament there are players that thrive that very few have heard of...Angel Baker and Alexus Dye come to mind. You have really good players like Fair on Buffalo, Jasmine Dickey from Delaware, Park Lane from Seton Hall...etc who fans don't see a lot for many reasons from their team standing, the conference they are in, regional viewing restrictions. If the women's game is to grow it needs as broad exposure as possible.

I didn't mention profit and specifically profit as a motive because...I wasn't thinking about that. Having said that what sporting event are you watching these days where someone isn't making money? The point of such a game is exposure. That's the WIN. What's the point of ANY allstar game? Players don't have to assemble a team. You ever play pickup and you go back and forth choosing? Keep it simple and fun. Who would pay airfare. I don't know. A school who wants exposure for their program perhaps? Ideally, the NCAA. They don't seem particularly busy.

 

[Jim]

You could have the equivalent of college football's Senior Bowl where graduating seniors have one more game to improve their draft prospects. Right now players on teams which make early tournament exits do the 3-pt, dunking, and skills contest the same as the final four weekend. Would not be that hard to add a couple of games for seniors that same weekend. It would not be an all-star game, but it would give some seniors the chance to not end their college careers with a loss.

 

[Cornell Lt]

Not sure what you would see in an all-star game that one wouldn't have seen over a 4 year career.

History has shown that basketball all-star games, no matter the level are only focused on offense with little to no defense, so what's the point.

 

[sun]

Not sure what you mean by compatible. Expand on that if you wouldn't mind. The incentive is as I suggested to grow the game. The game they say they love. Every tournament there are players that thrive that very few have heard of...Angel Baker and Alexus Dye come to mind. You have really good players like Fair on Buffalo, Jasmine Dickey from Delaware, Park Lane from Seton Hall...etc who fans don't see a lot for many reasons from their team standing, the conference they are in, regional viewing restrictions. If the women's game is to grow it needs as broad exposure as possible.

I didn't mention profit and specifically profit as a motive because...I wasn't thinking about that. Having said that what sporting event are you watching these days where someone isn't making money? The point of such a game is exposure. That's the WIN. What's the point of ANY allstar game? Players don't have to assemble a team. You ever play pickup and you go back and forth choosing? Keep it simple and fun. Who would pay airfare. I don't know. A school who wants exposure for their program perhaps? Ideally, the NCAA. They don't seem particularly busy.

I was referring to being compatible on the court, and was thinking about "what if" some All Star teams were composed of conference All Stars, or All Conference players.
They may not actually mesh on the court since they usually compete against each other.
Maybe it would depend on who their coach is.

Another source of All Star teams could be composed of All Americans say from the 1st, 2nd & 3rd All American award winners for the year.
They all have a similar elite level of talent.

But there's no way to force them to play, and I don't know what they could be offered to make them want to play.
Profit is almost always part of the motive because once TV is involved then money is involved, and the sponsor owns the broadcast rights and publicity is their primary purpose.

It would be nice if the NCAA could find a way to promote WCBB through some sort of exhibition games.
They don't need to be any more serious then the Olympic ice skaters who perform & tour after the Olympics.
They perform at a very high level but not in an effort to win anything, but just to showcase their talent and to earn some money.
There's that money word again....

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

You could have the equivalent of college football's Senior Bowl where graduating seniors have one more game to improve their draft prospects. Right now players on teams which make early tournament exits do the 3-pt, dunking, and skills contest the same as the final four weekend. Would not be that hard to add a couple of games for seniors that same weekend. It would not be an all-star game, but it would give some seniors the chance to not end their college careers with a loss.

This was actually done for a couple of years, at the Final Four. Cappie and Ann Strother were on one of the teams the year the final four was in Boston. I think Wendy Larry was the coach of one of the teams. The rules were slightly modified regarding time outs, running clock, maybe fouls. Larry called like 10 time outs in the last 2 minutes but engineered a comeback IIRC. It was affiliated with a high school all star game, as well.

 

[LwrcasefaN]

Not sure what you would see in an all-star game that one wouldn't have seen over a 4 year career.

History has shown that basketball all-star games, no matter the level are only focused on offense with little to no defense, so what's the point.

Not all the players would be seniors so you could potentially have players like Annesah Morrow. Everyone knows there's little defense because no one wants to get hurt and fans love scoring. They still watch it. That's why they have them...because people watch. You can't grow a game unless you expand the fan base. If someone lived on the east coast they probably don't see a lot of players at or all or every much in like the PAC 12. There's the time difference and then there's the gauntlet of subscriptions you need to cover all the games. I'd rather see something similar to this than the NIT Tournament.

 

[TheGOAT23]

Not sure what you would see in an all-star game that one wouldn't have seen over a 4 year career.

History has shown that basketball all-star games, no matter the level are only focused on offense with little to no defense, so what's the point.

Let’s make it more entertaining. Maybe they can imitate the NFL Pro Bowl. Basura!

 

[eebmg]

Forget the 5 x 5's. Too many logistic issues I would be very interested in all star 1 x 1 competitions (by position perhaps) and 3 pt events (and maybe some other clever adaptions)