The head of the WNBA has submitted a report on ways to improve women's basketball at the collegiate level.

Val Ackerman, the first president in the history of the WNBA was hired last November to evaluate the women's game. According to the Seattle Times, she submitted her report with several ideas to revitalize the sport last week.

Her ideas included moving the Final Four back to a Friday-Sunday format, having the top 16 teams host in the first two rounds and having two different locations host the eight-team super regionals for three years at a time.

"A lot of the ideas came from the membership," Ackerman told the Associated Press. "When I went into this, a piece of the process involved interviewing those who were associated with the sport. My questions were open ended: What do you like? What would you change if you could?"

The women's basketball committee will meet in Nashville, Tenn. next week, according to the Seattle Times, to discuss which if any of Ackerman's suggestions they will put into play.

NCAA women's basketball has been the most popular female sport since 1982 when it gained sponsorship. It has grown rapidly since, but has become static in recent years with attendance dropping and TV ratings in decline, most likely due to good defense.

While playing tough defense is considered "good basketball," it does not make for exciting television. While defense has prevailed on the court, scoring percentages in games have reached all-time lows.

"Scoring, to me, matters," Ackerman said. "That really surprised me. I didn't realize the scope of that sort of trajectory going in that direction."

The changes Ackerman proposed would likely not go into affect until the 2015 season and beyond, should the changes even be made. Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference commissioner Rich Ensor told the AP he liked Ackerman's ideas.

"At first glance, I liked some of the proposals," he said. "It's a great way to get a lot of local interest at a wide range of schools."

Another one of Ackerman's ideas is to have the women play their Final Four in the same city as the men and to have the tournament in one city.

If the committee choses either of Ackerman's ideas for the location of the tournament and who would be hosting, the main goal boils down to getting people of the local community in the seats at the games.