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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2044997, member: 1131"] To the OP: No, the fact that women's teams can't beat men's teams at basketball really shouldn't affect the popularity of women's basketball. But obviously in real life, women's basketball is less popular. Another mystery is why some individual female athletes (tennis players, track stars, figure skaters) do gain immense popularity, but women's team sports almost universally do not. I think it has to do with the fact that young adult men spend time following male sports teams (probably because they can vicariously enjoy the career that they dreamed of as kids), but young adult women do not tend to be fans of spectator sports at all. Either they are actually playing sports in their free time, or they are watching their children play. If Rebecca Lobo had a "regular job" (unrelated to basketball), how much time do you think she would spend following any college or pro team sport? Probably very little. But that is not true of men in her age group. [/QUOTE]