College Basketball Observation Report

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After watching both men and women NCAA national basketball championship game sunday and monday night. The observations that I was able to view was being success,skill vs luck, failures, difference in quality of technical production, openings and commercials etc. Watching the pregame for both women and men basketball game I was finding myself thinking there a lot of didn't things in the sport of college basketball for both genders. The national anthem, the introduction to players and, even introducing players that will make plays or be key factors for that team to win, is different as compared to what I’m use to seeing or hearing about. Going into the game I quickly figured out there were 4 quarters instead of 2 half like men, one of the commentators said at the start of the tip-off “That it feels like an SEC football game in fall,” because the arena was sold out. But as for the men the commentators typically start off with high emotion for example “WELCOME TO THE START OF THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BABY.” As the game would go on replays of the game would happen more often than in the women's game. Take the men's game hours prior before the game a famous band had played at the stadium but for the women's game they didn't get any performance, I know women program don't bring in as much money as men program but can't the men’s program share some of the money to give the fans a …show more content…
Being the last game of the season for college basketball should the hype of both gender sports be about the same in entertainment, from introduction to the end of the game. It wasn't the case for this years men and women

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