Jenny Mowe is a microcosm of what women's basketball, mixed with the publicity and entertainment value of nationally televised sports, has the potential to become in five years. She wants referees to grant the same playing privileges as men and to officiate games less severely. With the current double standards, referees may be partly to blame for the previous failures of professional women's basketball because professionals, who play for a television audience as well as a live one, are not allowed to make the big flashy plays that impress fans. The officials in this case are both prosecutor and judge. When the day of justice comes on the court for Jenny Mowe and women like her, there is a good chance it will come from the deliberation of referees.
Officials hold in their hands the means to raise women's basketball to a new level.
And then we do it. Jenny Mowe's biography page at the University of Oregon. Chandra Benton's biography page at Stanford. Olympia Scott's biography page at Stanford. Big names like Lisa Leslie also imitate NBA-style play.