ESPN play by play announcer Ryan Ruocco — and The Athletic writers Chantel Jennings and Sabreena Merchant — on the growth of women’s college basketball

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Episode 292 of the Sports Media Podcast features ESPN play by play announcer Ryan Ruocco, who calls both the Women’s Final Four and the WNBA for ESPN, and the Yankees and Nets for the YES Network, and Chantel Jennings and Sabreena Merchant, national writers for The Athletic covering the WNBA and women’s college basketball. In this podcast, Ruocco discusses calling the most-watched women’s college basketball game of alltime as the voice of LSU-Iowa; why the women’s basketball growth has happened; the impact of Caitlin Clark; the footage of Angel Reese taunting Clark; the terrible officiating in the title game; his WNBA and Nets schedule; the MLB pitch clock and more. Jennings and Merchant discuss covering the Women’s Final Four in Dallas; the record viewership; the upcoming women’s tournament media rights; why trash-talking and taunting are good for women’s basketball; Sabreena’s women’s college basketball too-early top 25 with LSU at No. 1; our No. 1 bet, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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