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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 3469861, member: 10435"] The problem with the NCAA and Mr. Creme is that once you start bringing in subjective criteria, like driving distance to the Regionals, any exclusion of other subjective criteria is, by its very nature, biased and inherently unfair because you are determining that one of these criteria is more important than others. How about we treat the women like athletes for a change and have an actual ranking system that gets translated into NCAA seedings? Here's another subjective criterion-TV audiences. Both the "driving distance' absurd criterion and the TV audience issue is about money. So UCONN in the FF isn't worth more money for TV? NC State is? Aren't there more UCONN fans that will drive to FT. Wayne as opposed to flying to Portland? What will be the first or second most watched game in the tourney? UCONN v. Oregon is my bet and it should be a national semifinal game. Mr. Creme is nothing more than an apologist for a very antiquated and probably sexist way of thinking that goes like this; we have to make sure that the parents and team fans can come because otherwise no one will go to see girls play! I find it to be nauseating and the fact that he would use the driving distance factor as a public justification is mind boggling to me. If you want the women's game to become an institutionalized second part of March Madness that has a much larger audience and following, the NCAA has to start treating it like one. [/QUOTE]