The women’s basketball tournament ought to be an NCAA flagship event, yet it continues to be treated as some kind of cheap subsidized junior varsity by the book-cooking crooks. You know how much money Connecticut, Stanford or Baylor will get for winning in the women’s tournament? But the NCAA, funnily enough, won’t break out the specific numbers on the women’s basketball tournament revenue and operating costs. All told, 274,507 fans attended the 2019 women’s tournament. The first women’s championship was played in 1972, in Normal, Ill., and it drew 16 teams, most of whom drove hundreds of miles, piled into station wagons, traveling on their own dime.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2021 19:13 UTC