Like I hear more about college players than actual professionals… seats are always sold out too
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The same reason men’s is. Is more unpredictable and fun to watch. They are playing for a shot at the big times so it’s fun watching them prove themselves.
Plus a lot of them are fearless taking these off the wall shots and making them..or not they having fun.
Because people care about women family members when they are in college but not once they start careers
Because the Illuminati want more wnba revenue so they put the mega-marketing machine behind college girls.
WNBA pandering is awful: “Please watch us!! You’ll be impressed with our fundamentals!!!”
Plus at one point there was a “you don’t watch bc your homophobic / sexist and White!” routine.
Because sports gambling has gotten more popular and normalized and women’s college basketball hosts a march madness tournament that is ideal for those betting services to take advantage of.
There are a lot more teams and teams like my Iowa Hawkeyes have always been well supported. I’ve been going to their games since the 1980s. They are deeply entrenched and have been for many years. The WNBA doesn’t have that history and it’s been marketed like shit. They have bad asses like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Cardoso, etc…coming in they have a historical opportunity to significantly raise their profile.
Because everyone has attachments to college
Weither ur a student alumni or person from the general area, people are connected to school teams
It normally has been about as popular, maybe a little more because of the tournament and bigger fan bases but recently with the NIL(players being able to make money off of their name) along with social media, you’ve seen individual players make themselves recognizeable stars. I can’t ever remember a time where the Women’s college game was more covered than the Men’s like it has been the last couple of years.
People won’t admit this, but now that the college players can get paid large amounts of money, they have a confidence that the wnba players don’t have and aren’t comparing themselves to the men. And this is translating through the game and media, they are a lot more entertaining.
A few reasons.
The WNBA suffers from a lack of good time slots for viewership and overall advertising, something college will never lack. Unless you are following a player you watched in college, genuinely love women’s basketball, or live in an area with a team, your probably not ever going to go out of your way to watch one.
College sneaks by that with not only March Madness, one of the biggest sports tournaments, but also having networks dedicated to just college sports. Sure, the WNBA has ESPN, but not a dedicated channel.
We also are in the midst or probably one of the best college players, both men and women, and any in any sport to play their game. Clark is a phenom the same way Mahomes is for the NFL. She’s breaking all over the place that includes both men and women’s basketball. Regardless of what people think about Pistol Pete and how he did it in much shorter time frame and games, her name is there now. She’ll go down as one of the best to ever play the game. That’s what the WNBA needs. They need a Jordan like player to come in to take the league over, make it popular to watch, and make people want to watch it. Clark could be that person. Hell a lot of the players for women’s basketball hopefully will be. The talent has been spread around pretty well the last couple of years. It would be great if this next generation of players is what infuses the WNBA with good rivalries that carried over from college that kick viewership up a notch.
The WNBA needs to take a page from what the NIL is doing marketing these women and transfer it over. Get hype going. A lot of people are just now starting to pay attention to women’s basketball. It’s gotten more viewers than men’s college basketball right now, the Iowa LSU game brought in more viewers than the superbowl and world series, viewership for women’s basketball in general had gone up almost 65% in 2 years! If the WNBA can even grab half of that %, it would be a success.
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