Women's game leaders: NCAA can't let report sit on a shelf by Eric Olson, The Associated Press Posted Aug 4, 2021 3:27 am EDT Last Updated Aug 4, 2021 at 3:41 am EDT Players get set for the opening tipoff of the championship game between Stanford and Arizona in the women's Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, April 4, 2021, at the Alamodome in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) Eight years ago, in a report the NCAA asked Big East commissioner Val Ackerman to write, she recommended the men’s and women’s Final Fours be played at the same venue on the same weekend. She also suggested the women’s basketball tournament have its own television contract, not one combined with other sports as is currently the case, and that the NCAA streamline its governance structure, among other things.