Hanna Cooper
Staff Writer
Troy’s women’s basketball team has ranked in the top four in Sun Belt Conference standings for five consecutive seasons, including back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2016 and 2017. However, many students and fans don’t view the sport as worth attending.
While student attendance was up 400% from previous seasons, free Chick-fil-A sandwiches, dollar hot dogs and bringing Santa into Trojan Arena should not be the reason that fans finally decide to come to a game.
The general excuses fans use when deciding not to come to women’s basketball game include the notion that women’s basketball is a slow sport, the team is not as good as the men, or the lack of dunking makes it less entertaining.