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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 4268912, member: 10435"] If one of the reasons for this change is to try and build new fan interest in the host area by having 3 more games there, as opposed to a current Regional, then the decision makers at the NCAA are even bigger dilettantes and more shortsighted and incompetent than I thought and believe me, the bar was already pretty low. So we want to make new fans of women's basketball in Seattle and Spokane by playing 3 extra games there? Wow. I didn't realize all you need is a few games more and you get addicted. The fans are related to the teams in this sport right now. I am sure when Kelsey Plum was there in Washington the attendance was higher than now. People go to root for their teams. The sport, except for UCONN and maybe one or two others, doesn't have the draw across the general population lines that it will in the future to the extent that the men's game currently enjoys. I would go see Duke or NC play in a regional men's final or semifinal here in New Jersey, I did it the last time it was here. In fact I would just go to the regional semis no matter who was playing. Would I go see Oklahoma play Indiana in women's hoops at a regional here? Nope. My team is UCONN. I see them whenever I can and that is the point. While I am a fan of women's basketball it is not the same thing as the draw of the men's game. Not yet but it is coming, slowly and surely. I bet there was more gambling on the NCAA women's tourney this year than ever before with almost all of those wagers coming from men. When that happens, the interest changes as well. I understand that to many the G word is abhorrent, but it is a reality. I think one day the interest in women's basketball will be so great that we will not be able to imagine it otherwise. The NCAA is not growing anything with this nonsense. They are just looking at the bottom line and creating even more complaints of favoritism. They had to change the transfer rules and create the portal because they couldn't handle it fairly and were getting maligned and probably sued. This change is not borne of a vision, it's borne of a bean counter's advice, I guarantee. [/QUOTE]

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