It's tough to find a sport with more similarities between the men's and women's games than basketball. The rules are almost identical. Both games are played with twenty-minute halves, and the courts have the same dimensions. Women play with a slightly smaller ball. The shot clock for men is five seconds longer.

It’s also up higher, so they can’t fiddle with it and muck things up. (Source)

If a school has a men's team, they probably also have a women's team. The scholarship quotas are similar across both teams because of Title IX.

Both men and women participate in March Madness, the major tournament of college basketball. Both use a bracket with the top sixty-eight teams in the nation. (A number of underdog men's teams have cracked the Final Four in recent years. That's always exciting.)

The women's game has pretty much been dominated by a handful of schools, including the University of Connecticut, Tennessee, Notre Dame, and Stanford.

There is one major disparity, though: how much people care about watching men's vs. women's basketball and, therefore, how much men vs. women get paid to play pro ball. Womp womp.

The league maximum for the WNBA players is $105,000 and the average salary in 2012 was about $72,000 per season (source). Now, take a second and consider the fact that top earners in the NBA are taking home $10–20 million dollars or more each season (source).

We'll still be here when you're done processing that info.