14 home games, 368 per game average. They might be outnumbered by away fans when they join the Big 12, although you'd think the change in conference affiliation will help bring in Houston fans as well.
WBB: General All-NCAA Thread - Not Team Cyclones Stuff
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I think it is equitable, as I understand all football players, including walk ons, will get $25K. Based upon our funding response, it appears TT women's basketball will get more $ than all of of our mens and womens sports combined. We are recruiting great at the moment. But, I expect recruiting and retention to get pretty dicey in the next few years. Support WEWILL if you can.
Is that why they're being frisked in the photo? Because it's illegal?
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Some schools are leaning forward more. Not that I like the "forward" but it is the new shape of college athletics, like it or not. At least we have a plan for the department to pay the $5,980 per year as a reward for academic performance that is now legal. I get this is not "NIL" but came at about the same time. We won't be paying the $5,980 annually though, withholding it until graduation and I don't recall them offering much details on if available to all, if the max $5,980 is the the baseline or if some get less, and what requirements need to be met academically. I think most schools opting in are going by academic year. Sort of a slow start by school around the country considering this was okayed well over a year ago. Lot of school not in great budget shape after covid and years of the facility upscaling race.
Correct. But as I understand this every team gives the $5980, so good for athletes, but not a differentiator .
Iowa State athletes could soon receive thousands of dollars in awards for academic success
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University’s scholarship athletes will soon have the opportunity to earn up to $5,980 per academic year as financial awards for their performance in the classroo…
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Baylor and us are the only 2 teams that travel well for WBB. We aren't great but we're respectable.
Being at TTech is a tough go. Have to make it worthwhile somehow.
You don't have to travel that well to outnumber 368. Especially since that 368 already includes away fans.
I would think they will get attendance bump from BU and possibly TT TCU while a pretty good program doesn't have a lot of fans but they might go to Houston.
@geewago what is your 2 cents on this?
Houston's one of the biggest cities in the USA and there are over 15K Baylor alumni there. Think they might out number Houston when they come to play but who knows. We have that many ISU alumni here in the Twin Cities but getting many to show up when ISU is in town is pretty hit and miss. Couple years ago I might have been the sole local watching ISU play here in the NCAA volleyball tournament.
Been some time since we've played here, think 2009 when Chelsea Poppens was a freshman.
I was in Fort Worth - we had a nice showing but didn’t outnumber Frog fans.
My 2 cents isn't worth much more than a nickle. Houston just never has supported WBB at the college level. Yet the WNBA Houston Comets (who won 3 wnba titles) were attended quite well. I went to at least a half dozen games and the crowds were 3 times larger than they are now for the Dallas Wings.
UH on the other hand has had several good players over the years that went on into the pros. In fact during the 3 year tile run that the Comets had, one of their starters who I'd estimate averaged at least 10 points a game was from UH. And that was when the Comets had Cynthia Cooper, Tina Thompson, Cheryl Swoopes. No wonder they won so much having 3 of the the top 5 players in the league.
TT used to travel well in TX & OK during the Marsha Sharpe days but that is over. TCU has never traveled well anywhere. When the Big 12 Tourney was in OKC (only 2.1/2 hrs away)they never had over 60 people there. Baylor always traveled very well to TCU, TT, UT, A&M, OU & Rice. But now with the changing of the guard here and the team no longer being a consistent top 5 team things seem to be declining here as well. However I'm sure when BU goes to UH they will still have far more fans than UH. That's a shame really because if you could recruit the top 3 players out of Houston every year you'd soon have a team competing for #1.
They Comets had it going but don’t really have recognition of them having been there, correct?
Watched the news last night and they covered the Hawks WBB team. Everyone there talked about their goal for the year is a #1 seed in the tournament. I understand that desire and they likely will be pre-season ranked right with us...BUT...unless their star has matured a bit they will still suffer from the same limitations as last year's squad. They have built a tough pre-season schedule with two Big 12 matchups that will speak volumes. On the road at KSU and ISU at home.
I should go to the KSU game and teach the purple kitties how to heckle Hawkeyes (They already do a good job on Jayhawks). Wear ISU gear to let them know who is leading the heckling.
.Unless they get more depth and Caitlin learns to share the ball don't see them going deep in the tourney.
Four-team field, schedule announced for 2022 Preseason WNIT
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Changes to how the NCAA regulates multi-team events in college basketball are still being processed, but the tradition will continue for the running of the Preseason WNIT, as tournament officials have announced the 2022 field and schedule.womensnit.com
WNIT released their preseason tourney field today and there's only four teams. The press release refers to "New NCAA scheduling protocols" taking away the fourth game. Does anyone know what those are?
There are three options for scheduling in WBB:
*28 games + a 3-game MTE
*29 games + a 2-game MTE
*29 games + no MTE
