Increasing WNBA Coverage

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So a common concern for the WNBA is increasing the revenue, which means increasing coverage, increasing number fans who come to the game, etc.

And so, in my opinion, the WNBA may wants to increase their coverage, the next team that they add to the league needs to be placed in an area where women's college basketball is really big i.e. South Carolina. South Carolina is number one in women's college basketball home attendance.

And so, if the league was to place a team in South Carolina, perhaps even have the team play in South Carolina's gym, they would attract all those fans.

So this is being done at the Atlanta Dream.  The Atlanta dream currently play at Georgia Tech Coliseum. Georgia tech is really not known for having a lot of fans, but the same could be practiced in South Carolina.

Those fans would be attracted to those games. The other thing is the WNBA is later after the college basketball season, and so when those fans don’t have college basketball to watch, they can go and watch WNBA teams.

I really think this needs to be implemented in the next team the WNBA decides to bring on.


 

Hyperlinks 

- http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_RB/reports/Attend/2017.pdf

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/12/06/for-the-wnba-business-isnt-as-bad-as-it-looks/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f0d109b58b11
- http://www.sportsretriever.com/basketball/wnba-needs-teams/