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No argument on SDSU or Creightin, but having attended a national championship game that included two relative no name programs in a market far away from both, I can assure you the matchup simply made it a little more affordable to get into a still-packed stadium. And it’s absolutely silly to pretend Miami isn’t a big name with a big market behind it.
Here are the historical ratings. Texas Tech and Virginia is the recent high. UConn Kentucky was huge. Kansas UNC was average. Your concern is overrated.
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How many people watch the championship game of Men's March Madness on TV? In 2024, the final attracted a TV audience of over 14 million viewers.
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Tell your friend he’s very silly.
There are plenty of us who love underdog stories and only watch until the ‘dogs are gone. I don’t give a damn about watching Duke, UNC, or Kansas for the umpteenth time. Yawn.
It's a good thing overall to have some variety in the teams at the Final Four. We complain every year about how stale and static the college football playoff has become. This past season, TCU snuck into the championship game and then got annihilated by the big, bad SEC program. Not fun or interesting.No argument on SDSU or Creightin, but having attended a national championship game that included two relative no name programs in a market far away from both, I can assure you the matchup simply made it a little more affordable to get into a still-packed stadium. And it’s absolutely silly to pretend Miami isn’t a big name with a big market behind it.
Here are the historical ratings. Texas Tech and Virginia is the recent high. UConn Kentucky was huge. Kansas UNC was average. Your concern is overrated.
March Madness NCAA final TV viewership 2024 | Statista
How many people watch the championship game of Men's March Madness on TV? In 2024, the final attracted a TV audience of over 14 million viewers.
Go FAU!
Ironically, I actually prefer when the upsets end this weekend and we end up with the final four made up of elite teams (I don’t care if they’re blue bloods, but top teams). Upsets are exciting, but games like the Butler UConn final are a reminder that games made up of teams who got there in bug upsets often demonstrate why those teams were low rated in the first place and we get ugly, middling quality final four games instead of slugfests between elite teams.
Hope either SDSU or FAU avoids that problem and plays two excellent games in a row next weekend. Certainly looks like Texas-UConn is set to be a slugfest… if Texas (or anybody else) can keep up with whatever kind of monster this UConn team has turned into, that is
Edit: lol, Miami has gone on a massive run starting like immediately as I wrote this
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Not sure I follow you here. We’ve seen both good and bad final four match ups involving cinderellas. We’ve also seen both good and bad final four match ups involving top seeds.
In the game you mentioned, Butler led UConn at halftime and while they ended up losing by 12, it’s not like they were overmatched or didn’t belong. That team returned most of their players from the previous year, a season in which the Bulldogs narrowly lost to Duke in the title game at the buzzer. Those Brad Stevens coached squads were no fluke. They were very good basketball teams (something I reminded Turk of multiple times when he’d mosey over here to take dump on them).
Personally, I much rather watch a slugfest between good, non traditional powers as opposed to yet another Kansas and North Carolina game in a similiar fashion. But that’s just a preference, as is yours.
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Yeah, nothing more exciting than the same old crap.
It’s just laundry.
UConn has played extremely boring games for two weekends. That doesn’t necessarily mean their opponents have been bad. UConn is pretty impressive.
FAU has been a better watch than SDSU.
I'm not saying low seeds can't result in close games. But they are a lot less likely to result in GREAT games. That UConn Butler game was rock fight garbage, not a phenomenal basketball game. It LOOKED like two teams outside the national elite, which is exactly what they were. Neither team was a top 10 or 20 team that year, but the tournament is goofy, so lesser teams can get through. That makes it fun, but I prefer to see two of the elite find their way to the finals rather than risk some middling rock fight in the final game.
I was at that UConn Butler title game in 2011. It was terrible. Butler shot less than 20% from the field and led 22-19 at the half. Plus, we were near the top row of a NFL football stadium and could barely see the court from a mile above. Only if NU is playing will I ever attend another Final Four in a football stadium.
After watching FAU play twice and, therefore, being a world scholar on their game, I was amazed at how freakishly confident and unaffected by the downs of the game they were.After the game, started looking up Coach Dusty May. Interesting factoid: looks like he played high school ball for Brooks Barnhizer’s dad (Mark Barnhizer).
Former IU basketball student manager Dusty May coaches FAU to Final Four. Get to know him.
Indiana native Dusty May is head coach for the Florida Atlantic University men's basketball team. This is what you should know about him.www.indystar.com
Matched nicely with a coach so incredibly calm on the sideline. Reminded me of Brad Stevens at Butler.
Unrelated but related, I wonder how good Memphis was. It’s trash that they were matched up with FAU in the first round, considering FAU’s top 20 net. Consistently the worst thing about the bracket is the way major programs are ‘protected’ from first round upsets.
(Charleston v SDSU, Memphis v FAU, St Mary v VCU. You could argue that, by fanbase, Boise-NU fit that category as well.)
Of course, if Memphis as a properly-seeded 7, and FAU as a properly-seeded 4, had joined SDSU as a properly-seeded 4, then even more CBS execs would be fashioning nooses.
Pretty sure The Bachelor ends tonight, so I’m not sure that ratings will be so tough to get next Monday.
It's the never ending protection of the money. I hate it.
3 of the 4 teams in the final four barely survived the 1st round. Probably not a coincidence on how untrue the seeds were.
Personally I get the satisfaction to see that 50% of the final four will be mid majors. And that does not include the perennial mid major media darling Gonzaga.
They take classes at Michigan but special classes if needed. Harbaugh complained when he was coach at Stanford about this fact. They can do General Studies along with very special Independent Study courses. One highlighted was a 4 credit class on How to Study. This class had over 90% of the students being "student athletes".
Not too many people have mentioned that this is Miami's first final four but Jim Larranaga's second trip. I believe it was 2006 that George Mason advanced to the Final Four. That tournament put GMU on the map. Their applications increased dramatically as did the academic quality of their applicants. It had the unintended consequence of ending GMU's NCAA powerhouse track program however, because JL's salary accelerated beyond the ability of GMU's ability to pay him without cutting sports. Miami eventually snared him
Absolutely. I'm more excited to watch this final than I have been in years. Probably since the 2010 Butler run to the final.
Same should be said about football. Obviously lots of people care about Alabama, Notre Dame, USC, Georgia, Clemson, OSU, Michigan, however the same old, same old has become so tiresome if not totally boring. The tedium needs to be shaken out of the NCAA, to create a system that is more diverse, like basketball appears to have become become. Even the ivy League and lesser known conferences have come to the fore.
To me all 4 teams are underdogs. Who picked any of them to make the final four? Got to say, I would be far more interested if we had two blue bloods and 2 big dogs to root for. Now, could care less who wins the semi’s. I guess FAU since they are the most improbable.
The big dogs already were rooted for, and got beat. That's the beauty of this.
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Wasn't the NIT championship played by two teams from Conference USA?
It helps me understand why Verhoeven played decently for NU when transferring from UTEP.
The NIT championship is being played tonight between two teams from CUSA, yes.
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