March 15, 2007

Wanted for women's game: some female fans

By: Mark Purdy, Mercury News

Today, from coast to coast, arenas will be full of fans watching the first games of the NCAA basketball tournament. There will be drama, competition and stupid mascots galore. People can't get enough of it.

So please explain the situation at Stanford this weekend. Saturday and Monday, six more NCAA games will be played at Maples Pavilion. These games will be full of excitement and passion, as well. And, yes, they will also have stupid mascots.

But they will be women's games. Not men's.

And that makes all the difference.

The listed capacity of Maples is 7,233. Yet even with Stanford's team in the eight-team field, only about 3,500 tickets had been sold for all the NCAA sessions as of Wednesday morning, according to the event's media coordinator, Gary Migdol. (More ...)

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