It doesnt need to be at midnight and leave the women involved, I talk during the womens stuff or I check my phone.. its not like the women are taking up the men's time or something... But the women's team is going to be a lot better this year so even I'm interested in seeing them. as for what can make it better.
1. Camp out. make it at memorial or the parking lot of Rupp for 2-3 days before tickets but .............not only do you get tickets, you get to go inside and watch the guys do a shoot around or something or pick up games.
2. Much better music . im sorry but country music and 60's-80's music just doesnt get many people putting their hands up. Maybe free use EDM or electronic type genre's I just call gaming music with highlights of UK from 70's up until now but mostly the 90's since that's Pope's era. so basically what we usually do for those intro's but more and throughout the event ...well before and in breaks etc.
3. Back to the scrimmages we used to have, good lord somewhere halfway through Cal's tenure he just started allowing it to be less time and the players to give less of a crap about it and it just got worse and worse.
4. split the team into 2 at the start and you can let them do team 3pt shooting or other drills and score it somehow... and the scrimmage can be the other part of the scoring done and whoever loses has to do a skit , dance or something. Fans might get into it a little more if you can find some kind of stakes in it.