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Title 9-1-1
Published: 7/29/2008 12:21 PM
Last Modified: 7/29/2008 12:21 PM

I have written a couple of times this summer that women's basketball, once ignored by the media, has seemingly caught up to men's basketball in terms of popularity. Two Bedlam women's games outdrew two Bedlam men's games last season.
Now women's basketball is catching up to men's athletics in other areas.
A point guard for the OU women's team was arrested for shoplifiting. One of the top players for the Louisiana-Monroe's women's team was arrested for firing a gun from an apartment balcony. A WNBA game was marred by a brawl.
It's great that women's basketball has arrived. And it's sad that women's basketball has arrived.



Reader Comments 4 Total
mike (5 years ago)
"Two Bedlam women's games outdrew two Bedlam men's games last season."

That's because OU gives away thousands of women's tickets for free. They don't do that for men's games. I'd imagine OSU probably does the same. The women's game, unfortunately, is just not interesting.
I SPEAK FOR ALL (5 years ago)
Women's Basketball: YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.......
...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ......
.....Honk Shooo...Honk Shooo....Honk Shoo...
A recent OSU alumna (5 years ago)
I Speak For All: No, you certainly do not. Get over yourself.

Mike: OSU didn't give away tickets to Cowgirl basketball very often this season. Aside from a handful of scout and 4-H days, everyone had to pay to get in. The seats are pretty low-priced though, with student tickets starting around $5.

Hmm...pay $5 for a good seat while watching a nationally competitive team versus shelling out at least 10 times that for a crap seat to see a mediocre-at-best team. Let me think real hard on that one...
Mike (5 years ago)
Sorry, Recent OSU alumna, women's basketball is just not interesting. And really, the girls just aren't very good. They're less athletic and contrary to the popular cliche, they are not better at the fundamentals. If I wanted to watch sloppy basketball in slow motion I'd go down to the Y and watch the pickup games.

Charging 5 dollars is not much different than giving tickets away and actually proves my point that the reason the women's games are able to draw anyone at all is because of drastically reduced ticket prices. Make all of those tickets 20+ and see how many people show up.

BTW, just because something is cheap, doesn't mean it's not a waste of money.
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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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