Women's Hoops Blog

Inane commentary on a game that deserves far better


Friday, March 30, 2007

Kathy Orton discusses the tournament's attendance problems. ESPN, for one, doesn't like showing empty arenas on TV.

"With the amount of competition we have in the market for people to browse through all the channels, it's important that it's a welcoming environment, an exciting environment," says programming director Carol Stiff. "We sometimes have to shoot the arena in a different way than we would like to."

Coach Summitt, who supported the move to neutral sites, says it might be time to go back to the old system.

She might be right. But even under the old system, we had predetermined sites for the regionals. We still need to figure out something to do about that.