article_snippet: (CNN)Last month, my husband and I took our daughters to a Columbia University women's basketball game.
article_snippet: our live nearby, had already attended a men's game and were excited for our girls, one of whom plays basketball, to watch college women in action.
article_snippet: When our walked into the arena, my mouth practically dropped to the floor.
article_snippet: Only a handful of people were there, quite a contrast from the nearly packed house for the men's team.
article_snippet: Sure, the men's team hasn't had a great season for years -- and this year wasn't much different.
article_snippet: Still, only a handful of spectators to cheer on women who were clearly standouts in women who were clearly standouts in their high schools to make it to a college basketball team high schools to make it to a college basketball team?
article_snippet: I sat on the bench, cheered the women and fumed.
article_snippet: boys' teams, her said.
article_snippet: John Furjanic of Chicago said John Furjanic of Chicago and a friend took he and a friend young daughters to a DePaul University women's basketball game for Valentine's Day for the third year in a row.