...has been the lack of parity. And while it's still true that only a small handful of teams have even a chance to win it all in the womens' game, it looks like the men are backsliding back to that point as well. Just look at the respective Final Fours. All four of the womens' #1 seeds made it. For the men, you have three #1's, and #7 Michigan State. But an underdog MSU making a run in March is about as surprising as the sun rising in the East. Not to mention that UConn and UK are so far above the rest that their winning it all is pretty much a foregone conclusion.
The women still lack parity. But from where I sit, the mens' game has the least parity since Wooden's heyday.
I don't agree with this at all. In the last three years, four of the twelve men's final four teams were 7+ seeds, and 6 of the twelve were 4+. In that same span, one 4 seed and one 5 seed made the women's final four, and the rest have been 1 or 2 seeds.
The parity in the men's game is pretty strong, and is almost non-existent in the women's game. Not much has changed IMO.