even if instead of making three more of those threes, let's say Hansen just took 3 less threee point shots ands instead made the extra pass inside to someone in the paint to score...even better. 

Alum '04 wrote:

moneybox wrote:

And the Post gives us one sentence and no box score! I guess we would have to win the national title to get an article. 

You're expecting a box score? It's 2025.

 
Truly don’t understand why anyone even cares about The Post and local basketball coverage anymore. Literally zero sports fans are waking up in the morning to get news about yesterday’s games from The Washington Post. Anybody who cares is getting there info from the many and varied on line publications that know the game and could care less about The Washington Post. It’s like talking about why no one goes to the racetrack in the age on line gambling. They don’t matter, so stop whinging about whether we get a line in The Post or not. More people see a Rothstein tweet these days.

Ralphie wrote:

I beleve I speak for many on this site who might be more than a little annoyed/disrespected by the lack of coverage of our University's D-1 Basketball team in the WAPO Sport's section by offering this analogy:   As a GW alum, how would you feel if the WAPO put out a Special Education Edition supplement entitled A GUIDE TO THE WASHINGTON DC AREA'S MAJOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES that gave GWU a single line of coverage within a paragraph that also highlighted such local DMV institutions as VCU and JMU - and buried between multi-page comprehensive studies of UMD, G'town, etc.

 
20 years ago I might have been annoyed. Today, I could care less. Let me repeat myself, the Washington Post is irrelevant with respect to day to day coverage of games. Big stories, like the way they did Lonergan, different issue. But if you still wake up and go grab a hard copy of the Washington Post and look to see if we got a line, or a para, or a box score….well, rest easy in Jurassic Park, my friend.

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Its kinda ironic that in some ways, coverage of GW basketball has never been better.  10-15 years ago, who would have ever dreamed that all GW games (home and away) would be available on televisoin (thank you ESPN plus) and the internet has made access to information incredible.   Conversely, newspaper and television coverage has never been worse.  GW once had a beat writer.   Not only were the games covered, but there was also game day coverage.  At times, you could even find conference stanidngs  Although it was never at the level of Ge**orgetown or Maryland, it was pretty decent.  There were game clips on the local TV stations.  At times, even conference standings were posted.  All is still available on line, but you have to seek it out.  If you are not looking for it, it is as if we have ceased to exist.  As a result, support for the program appears to be lower than I can recall in over half a century.   Game attendance is embarassing low (yes there are multiple reasons for that) but even as the team gets bettter (we are), it is hard to get even 2,000 people into the Smitty.  Even participatoin in this wonderful board has been stagnant.     The school seems to be trying hard to fix this, but so far it hasn't been effective but for an occasional surge in student support. (which generally involves free food or some kind of giveaway.).   

   We actually got just 1/3 of a sentence in the paper. Are we getting significant stories and box scores online?
 Are we 13-3 with finally a bunch of decent wins? I thought the excuse for not covering us was that we
weren't winning. Why is there still fawning coverage of other local universities basketball in the Post--and
much more space devoted to high schools than us? Wouldn't be positive, but in fairness, shouldn't there have been some coverage of AU's big win against us? Two local teams actually playing each other in
a non-league game.
   GW, until very recently, seems to ask for self-inflicted negative coverage in basketball and even worse, as a university and institution. Now, we have something neutral and trending positive. When during the occasional time, GW somehow does something right in sports or as a school in general, we should support  our right to be recognized.
   It's really a question of fairness and respect. Much like for some reason, the local G-League team, we don't exist. And yes, online and in print, coverage in the local newspaper probably has more influence than some of the obscure podcasts, especially for casual fans. And this can affect interest and ticket sales. LSF has it right in numerous fronts.
    Our own WRGW students do a tremendous job and the Hatchet also is diligent in following the fortunes of GW basketball. But those are GW-focused sources--and much as we would like otherwise, the rest of the world and local ticket buying public aren't generally following those outlets.
   Also, it looks like some readers, happily in Jurassic Park, who are GW basketball fans still get the 
paper and those in print and online, pay for what should be fair coverage. There is a sizable staff being paid to promote GW and GW athletics, though they are probably wary of running into a brick wall time and time
again.
  Having said that:
1) From a superstitious standpoint, we probably don't want them to rediscover us. Wasn't maybe just last year, when they finally did--and we went on our league play swoon. Bad mojo, so to speak, at this point.
And 2) Like LSF, after the high of the Rhode Island game, I was just thinking about how we
can watch games most of the time.
  We used to contort ourselves just to listen to snatches of games on radio. And that depended on the static
and seemingly, the position of the skies, who is braying at the moon, etc.