Why Women’s Basketball Is Bigger and Better Than Ever

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Women’s basketball is having a moment in 2023. Attendance records have been broken not only at the WNBA Finals, but also at the University of Iowa’s outdoor scrimmage featuring the NCAAW’s biggest star: Caitlin Clark…which took place on a football field. With the Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty establishing themselves as the WNBA’s superteams and the W’s recent expansion announcement, it begs the question: Is the league entering a new era? Alexa Philippou joins the show to answer the burning questions about the present and future of women’s basketball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alexa Phillipu in recent weeks, many of us are tracking the clash of the WNBA super teams.
0:06.6	But in parallel to that, there was another vibrant scene playing out in this sport.
0:10.8	Tell us what went down.
0:12.3	So Sunday, October 15th was a pretty huge deal, women's basketball.
0:16.3	Now I was at Barclay Center in Brooklyn for Game 3 at the WMA Finals between the Aces
0:21.1	and the Liberty.
0:25.1	Game three into York is underway.
0:28.9	The Aces and two O Series lead of these best of five finals.
0:33.7	But if you look west, and Iowa City, there's something pretty special going down.
0:37.9	This has been planned for a while for Iowa.
0:40.5	They're about to do something here that has never done in the sport of women's basketball.
0:46.3	It was a little bit windy and chilly, but that did not matter.
0:49.6	This stadium holds 69,250 fans, and we can see in our section especially around the North
0:57.6	Fendzone, it is filling up with people.
1:01.6	55,646 fans turned out to an outdoor exhibition game at Iowa's football stadium.
1:09.7	To watch the Iowa Women's Basketball team led by National Player of the Year from last
1:14.2	year, Caitlin Clark, take on DePaul.
1:17.1	Caitlin Clark, unloads from the end zone.
1:24.2	That was almost double the previous record of attendance for a Women's Basketball game.
1:28.5	And so you had in New York a bunch of excitement over the finals, there was Joan Jet, back court
1:35.3	side, Jason Cedecas is there, Aubrey Plaza, all these celebrities.
1:39.8	Jason Cedecas is always in a seafold green hoodie we saw in Game 2 out of Vegas, Swiss
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