NCAA investment in a second women's basketball tournament emerges as a big hit in Indy

As the eagerly anticipated LSU-Iowa women's rematch was about to tip off, Washington State coach Kamie Ethridge took a seat in Indianapolis, lamented her team's season-ending loss and celebrated another milestone moment for the sport. Four more women's teams were playing here, in April, thanks to the NCAA's new Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament. Inside one of the sport's venerable venues, Butler's Hinkle Fieldhouse, Ethridge was one of many players and coaches gushing about the opportunit

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