Patricia Lowry is a glass-half-full person when it comes to Sunday’s mega-women’s basketball showdown between No. 1 South Carolina and No. 3 LSU. The game is scheduled to tip at 2 p.m. ET on ESPN, which runs headfirst into the pregame window of another sporting event happening on Sunday that you may have heard about — Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Ariz.
Lowry oversees the production of women’s college basketball across all of ESPN’s networks and recognized about seven weeks ago that if South Carolina and LSU continued their winning ways — they are the two remaining unbeaten teams in Division I women’s college basketball — her ESPN game would be going up against Fox’s all-day football orgy.
“When I did realize it, I looked at it and thought, ‘Well, the good news is the game is at 2:00 in the afternoon, and 2:00 in the afternoon on Super Bowl Sunday is a pretty good window to me because it’s before you really get into the nitty-gritty of the football pregame,” Lowry said. “I think women’s basketball fans have the opportunity to watch both. They’re going to be able to watch the Super Bowl, some of the pregame, and watch this game, too. For anybody who loves women’s basketball, this game is appointment viewing.”
That’s undoubtedly true, but there…
