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While I would rather they highlight Stanford players, for better or for worse, casual fans might barely know of anyone outside of their own team, and those are the people we hope get more interested in women's college basketball. And for as long as I've been alive, "human interest" stories about the athletes are one way to get people to connect to the sport.  If it brings more fans to WBB, I'm all for it.

BC

+1. Sabrina Ionescu is the best thing to happen to WCBB since at least Breanna Stewart or Maya Moore, and probably all the way back to Diana Taurasi. For reasons fair or unfair, her college sports story arc has penetrated into the rare zone where a WCBB player creates top-of-the-fold headlines in the sports section. Given the unfair perceptions WCBB has had to fight for decades, I'm all for anything that draws interest to the sport....

...ETA: except when it involves breaking her 2k/1k/1k record by defeating Stanford at Maples. That one is going to smart for a while...

I totally agree. I think that Sabrina has been fantastic for women's bb attention -- and I'm all for it. I just thought it was really interesting that the Pac-12 showed the entire senior night ceremony.

I thought it was a bit much.  Senior night is for the players and their families (and to a lesser extent, the fans who have grown close to them over the years).  Of course, I'm not as big on Ionescu as others are - and I'm plenty high on her as a college basketball all time great.

[teejers1]

While I would rather they highlight Stanford players, for better or for worse, casual fans might barely know of anyone outside of their own team, and those are the people we hope get more interested in women's college basketball. And for as long as I've been alive, "human interest" stories about the athletes are one way to get people to connect to the sport.  If it brings more fans to WBB, I'm all for it.

BC

+1. Sabrina Ionescu is the best thing to happen to WCBB since at least Breanna Stewart or Maya Moore, and probably all the way back to Diana Taurasi. For reasons fair or unfair, her college sports story arc has penetrated into the rare zone where a WCBB player creates top-of-the-fold headlines in the sports section. Given the unfair perceptions WCBB has had to fight for decades, I'm all for anything that draws interest to the sport....

...ETA: except when it involves breaking her 2k/1k/1k record by defeating Stanford at Maples. That one is going to smart for a while...

I totally agree. I think that Sabrina has been fantastic for women's bb attention -- and I'm all for it. I just thought it was really interesting that the Pac-12 showed the entire senior night ceremony.

I thought it was a bit much.  Senior night is for the players and their families (and to a lesser extent, the fans who have grown close to them over the years).  Of course, I'm not as big on Ionescu as others are - and I'm plenty high on her as a college basketball all time great.