You don’t have to inform ESPN senior vice president of production Meg Aronowitz about the challenge of producing the women’s NCAA Tournament without Caitlin Clark the year after she had galvanized the property to NFL viewership heights.
“You never want to be the guy that follows Nick Saban, right?” Aronowitz said, laughing.
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There is an interesting duality with the women’s tournament this year. The sport is as hot as ever and includes stars in every corner of America from USC’s JuJu Watkins to UConn’s Paige Bueckers to Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo to Texas’ Madison Booker. Regular-season games were up 3 percent year-over-year across all of ESPN properties — and up an
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