Throwdown Thursday | Women's College Basketball Tournament Wrap Up | Episode 606

We take a look back at the #ncaawomensbasketball tournament. What do we see coming next year in #womenssports What the House Decision may mean for Women's Basketball • At schools like Lou isville and elsewhere around the country, there is an internal battle for resources brewing. • In some ways coaches have always jockeyed against each other for resources, from travel budgets to facilities upgrades to coaching salaries, but never has it been quite as competitive as under the $20.5 million budget athletic directors will have to disperse directly to athletes starting in July if the House settlement is approved (possibly as early as next Monday). Duke • At Duke, athletic director Nina King has to weigh a blueblood men's basketball program that is in the Final Four, a football program that went 9-4 last season under Manny Diaz with the potential for even greater success and a women's basketball program under Kara Lawson that won the ACC this year and made the Elite Eight. It's a great problem to have, one that many ADs in less fortunate situations would love to have, but a problem nonetheless. • "All three of those coaches asked me for a lot more than we can provide for them," King told CBS Sports Segment 3: 2 Region System • NCAA president Charlie Baker said Friday it likely isn't feasible to make any imminent changes to the NCAA women's basketball tournament's two-regional system, a format that drew criticism from UConn coach Geno Auriemma and Texas counterpart Vic Schaefer during regional play last week. • "Talk to everybody," Baker said ahead of the Final Four on Friday night. "There are a lot of coaches who do [like it]. Ask [South Carolina's] Dawn Staley. See what she says." • The women's tournament had four regionals -- just like the men's -- until 2023, when the NCAA switched to the current two-regional system. That decision was made before the inequities between the men's and women's tournaments were exposed in 2021 in the two pandemic "bubbles" for the events in Indianapolis and San Antonio. • The regional sites already have been awarded to cities though the 2028 tournament. On your #sportspodcast with all your #sportsnews