- UConn will not repeat
- UNC is way over-rated (undeserving of their #1)
- Purdue will choke
Houston wins the National Championship
claver2010 {l Wrote}:Maybe the ACC wasn’t as bad as the ib-tologists were babbling about
innocentbystander {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:Maybe the ACC wasn’t as bad as the ib-tologists were babbling about
UVa blew, but NC State is playing AWESOME!!!!! They are really getting it done. Good for them.
So what? Houston is still going to kick everyone's ass. The end.
Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:If you want to know how irrelevant men’s basketball is at this point consider the fact that a match up between the two best men’s basketball teams for the national championship got absolutely destroyed in the ratings by the Nag Ball final. Granted, UCONN is a piece of shit school in a lightly populated, once-prosperous state, coached by a mentally unbalanced sociopath with the most despicable fans in college sports and Purdue is the sad little brother basketball program in the state of Indiana, but c’mon, the fact that it got blown out of the water by Nag Ball is ridiculous. It also shows how ridiculous the P5 AD lobby is for trying to bounce mid and low majors from the tournament—the only reason anyone watches the tournament at this point is to watch the occasional first round upset or to see which Cinderella story makes the Sweet 16. Once it becomes a P5 Tournament in the Elite Eight, nobody cares and the TV numbers show it.
ATLeagle {l Wrote}:Being on TBS hurt and Caitlin Clark was a once in a lifetime event. The tourney is still a great TV package but college hoops has become a one-month sport for the most part. For a basketball blue blood, UConn still is not a great TV draw. That's why the Big 12 bailed on them. Next year without Clark the women's numbers will tank. Then you put Duke or UNC or UCLA in the Final Four and the ratings will go up.
Bryn Mawr Eagle {l Wrote}:ATLeagle {l Wrote}:Being on TBS hurt and Caitlin Clark was a once in a lifetime event. The tourney is still a great TV package but college hoops has become a one-month sport for the most part. For a basketball blue blood, UConn still is not a great TV draw. That's why the Big 12 bailed on them. Next year without Clark the women's numbers will tank. Then you put Duke or UNC or UCLA in the Final Four and the ratings will go up.
I think this is true. Clark made the women's event huge, and timing and the networks hurt the men. On Monday night I turned on CBS to watch the men's NC game and could't understand why it wasn't on there. I had to go searching for it to find it on TBS. And a Monday 9 pm start time on the east coast does not help.
I think they should change the scheduling so that the women's final 4 games are played on Thursday at 6:30 and then 9 p.m., the men's on Friday in the same time slots, and then the Championships for the women on Saturday at 6 or 7 p.m., and the men's championship on Sunday at 6 p.m. - the same time slot as the superbowl. I know MLB won't like that but you would increase viewership for both championship games. (But it may hurt the numbers for the men's final 4 games). The women's viewing numbers will certainly drop off next year due to no Clark, but so much depends on the individual players in that sport and the storylines the networks can publicize, and they will continue to try and do so because, Equity. As long as LSU and UConn are in the women's final 4 the coaches will also draw interest.
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