Is This a Moment for Women's College Hoops?
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Chantel Jennings, senior writer covering women's basketball for The Athletic, about the factors that contribute to that gap and how the women's game could overcome them.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're even a casual college basketball fan, you've probably seen the play a million times. |
| 0:12.7 | No team has repeated as NCAA champions since UCLA did it in 1973. |
| 0:21.2 | Will the dream die here for Duke? |
| 0:23.4 | If you're a hardcore fan, you simply call it the shot. |
| 0:26.8 | There's the pass to Latina. |
| 0:29.2 | What's it up? |
| 0:30.5 | Yes! |
| 0:32.5 | Christian Latina's last second bucket in overtime sent Kentucky home and Duke to the 1992 Final Four. |
| 0:41.3 | The Blue Dovels went on to repeat as national champions in a final game that was seen by 34 million people that year. |
| 0:49.4 | Club, the top of the key! |
| 0:51.4 | Oh! |
| 0:53.1 | Big time, the loop rate! |
| 0:55.4 | Fast forward to last year, Duke was in the Final Four again, this time facing Archrival North Carolina in the national semi-final for the first time ever. |
| 1:05.1 | To make things even more compelling, it was the last game for Duke's legendary head coach, Mike Chishapsky. |
| 1:11.8 | Racing, World of Three, no-god, rebound Carolina and the fairy tale ride for the Tar Heels, Pettinus. |
| 1:22.6 | About 18 million people tuned in. |
| 1:25.4 | So roughly half the audience of 1992. |
| 1:28.9 | And that is only half the story when it comes to college basketball and TV audiences. |
| 1:35.0 | The other half, the viewership is trending up for the women's game. |
| 1:38.8 | It is not unfinished business any longer! |
| 1:43.2 | South Carolina has captured its second national championship! |
| 1:49.8 | South Carolina's triumph over the University of Connecticut in last year's title game was watched by nearly 6 million people. |
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