If there’s a handful of women’s games that even the common fan can point to as having national appeal this season, Baylor-UConn playing for the first time in almost three years would appear to be one of them.

“Unfortunately, (the nation) won’t be watching,” Mulkey said. “It’s really sad that ESPN didn’t pick up (the UCLA) game, between the No. 9 team and the No. 2 team that’s on a Tuesday night and wasn’t nationally televised. Neither us, or the Ohio State against South Carolina women game was picked up.

“But they did manage get Texas and Stanford on there.”

Mulkey’s dig against Big 12 rival Texas — affiliated with ESPN through the Longhorn Network — comes after Texas and Stanford played Monday night on ESPN2. It was also a shot across the bow for the network as a whole and how Mulkey perceives its approach to the women’s game.

ESPN also owns the exclusive rights to the NCAA Women’s Tournament.

“We’ve failed miserably in women’s basketball not to have a Baylor women’s basketball game on ESPN this week,” Mulkey said. “They always tell you ‘Coach Mulkey, help grow the game … for the good of the game, help grow the game.’