In addition to the SuperBowl on Sunday, sports fans will be treated to the best women's college basketball has to offer. ◽️Dawn Staley vs. Kim Mulkey ◽️Aliyah Boston vs. Angel Reese 'This game is appointment viewing.” ✍️ richarddeitsch
. The game is scheduled to tip at 2 p.m. ET on ESPN, which runs headfirst into the pregame window of another sporting event happening on Sunday that you may have heard about — Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Ariz.
“When I did realize it, I looked at it and thought, ‘Well, the good news is the game is at 2:00 in the afternoon, and 2:00 in the afternoon on Super Bowl Sunday is a pretty good window to me because it’s before you really get into the nitty-gritty of the football pregame,” Lowry said. “I think women’s basketball fans have the opportunity to watch both. They’re going to be able to watch the Super Bowl, some of the pregame, and watch this game, too.
That’s undoubtedly true, but there is a counterargument that a game of this magnitude could draw the interest of casual sports fans, not just devout women’s hoops heads who normally would not have their device set all day to Fox. It’s very rare to get two unbeaten teams meeting this late in the regular season. Also, the competition is not just some popular studio show; it’s equivalent to angame audience. In February 2020, Fox’s Super Bowl pregame show averaged 21.
“There is an argument to be made on both sides,” Lowry said when I posed to her the hypothetical of this game being scheduled on a different day. “I can see the argument on the other side. But when you look at the special edition of ‘NFL Countdown’ that leads into this particular game, I think you have an opportunity to gain some new fans. … They may not be women’s basketball fans.
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