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Date: | Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:16:32 -0700 |
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> I am not sure where Adam got his figures, but the idea that
college
>hockey is ahead of women's basketball in net revenue seems to me
>far-fetched. A number of women's teams routinely sell out for the season
>in 10,000 to 15,000 seat buildings. UConn and Tennessee are cases in
>point. No college hockey team does that. For another example, the
>Eastern regionals for hockey this year were a disaster at the gate and were
>easily outdrawn by the women's Eastern Regional's (one of four). And
>finally, there are just a lot more women's basketball teams producing
>revenue than revenue producing college hockey teams. In fact, women's
>basketball has a full 64 team tournament.
This is just a theory on my part. I have no idea what the actual numbers
are, so you may be right, but this may be a case of perception vs reality.
The media gives women's basketball way more media attention than it
deserves based on attendence. The new WNBA and ABL leagues got
a huge amount of hype ("We Got Next") and would routinely have only two
or three thousand fans at the games. Outside of the big name college
programs, there may be a big drop-off in attendence. So, averaged out,
college hockey may beat out women's college basketball.
Jim Walker
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