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https://www.wsj.com/articles/attendance-...1583421714

The article might be behind a paywall, but it notes rising popularity of women's college basketball, with attention on the effect of the "once-in-a-generation guard Sabrina Ionescu."

Stanford is mentioned as well:

Oregon is not the only Pac-12 school whose women’s basketball team has seen a significant surge in popularity. At No. 14 Oregon State, the women’s team accounts for 60% of total attendance, adjusted for the number of games, according to NCAA data, up from 48% in 2016-17. Ditto at unranked California, where women’s basketball attendance has grown from 19% four years ago to 31% of the total in the 2019-20 season. At No. 7 Stanford, the share of women’s attendance dipped from 45% in 2016-17 to 38% the following season and is back up to 48% in 2019-20.

Also talks about the salutatory effects of some parity on WBB:

Today there are a handful of programs that could rightly be considered to be on equal footing with UConn, including Baylor, Notre Dame, Oregon, Mississippi State and South Carolina [ed: but not Stanford? :(]. Of the teams ranked in the top 10, not one is undefeated. Within the top 25 there are 12 teams with three losses or fewer, including No. 6 UConn who has lost to Baylor, Oregon and South Carolina.

BC

[BostonCard]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/attendance-...1583421714

The article might be behind a paywall, but it notes rising popularity of women's college basketball, with attention on the effect of the "once-in-a-generation guard Sabrina Ionescu."

Stanford is mentioned as well:

Oregon is not the only Pac-12 school whose women’s basketball team has seen a significant surge in popularity. At No. 14 Oregon State, the women’s team accounts for 60% of total attendance, adjusted for the number of games, according to NCAA data, up from 48% in 2016-17. Ditto at unranked California, where women’s basketball attendance has grown from 19% four years ago to 31% of the total in the 2019-20 season. At No. 7 Stanford, the share of women’s attendance dipped from 45% in 2016-17 to 38% the following season and is back up to 48% in 2019-20.

Also talks about the salutatory effects of some parity on WBB:

Today there are a handful of programs that could rightly be considered to be on equal footing with UConn, including Baylor, Notre Dame, Oregon, Mississippi State and South Carolina [ed: but not Stanford? :(]. Of the teams ranked in the top 10, not one is undefeated. Within the top 25 there are 12 teams with three losses or fewer, including No. 6 UConn who has lost to Baylor, Oregon and South Carolina.

BC