Furthermore, in another interview with Dajah Thomas, a female high school basketball player, she states, "we work just as hard as men, we have a reason for playing just like men do, and women are just as important and as good as men in basketball." Hearing pretty much the same answer from both female athletes not exactly confirms that women's basketball should be recognized or broadcasted better than they have been, but proves a point that women athletes work hard like men athletes and also see that they are not being recognized how the men are being recognized. Although the media broadcasting women may seem trivial, it is in fact crucial in terms of today's concern over the effects the media may receive. Ultimately, what is at stake here is problems with less men's broadcasts and more women's broadcasts. These findings have important consequences for the broader domain of women's basketball overpowering men's basketball. This could also cause the fans to watch less of the media and even rate the media low because they would prefer to see the men being broadcasted instead of the women. .
Men are extremely competitive in basketball, however, women compete just as hard as men. For instance, my freshmen year of high school was amazing, one of my teammates signed to a school for basketball as well as a guy from our high school. Although they both were signing, the male got the most praise and media. Even in the book "Women In Sport" it states, "In fact, in the 1996 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Championships, the women's final drew more spectators than the men's final and had the highest television rating in the history of women's basketball" (Ryan)(564). Regardless the attention received in 1996, immediately after that was over the men's basketball gained all of the attention back.