Only 140% more, though...and it was a big soccer game...biggest minor league soccer game of the year.

Lol I would be surprised if that game even got 2.0 nationally.

Bet ESPN wouldn't bump Kentucky or Duke to ESPN2 for a soccer game.

Football is more important than basketball. Shocking.

But minor league soccer?

I would bet everything I own that the majority of posters on here couldn't name five teams in the MLS...probably not even three teams.

That Birmingham number is stunning as it matched the KC market for te Bills game a few weeks back. Obv they all had a rooting interest there. The SEC ratings were down 13% from last year and were lower than the Iron Bowl last week. So it's pretty clear who folks were tuning in to see around the South. Still good exposure for Mizzou, too bad they were humiliated.

The Baylor game drew, what...a 2 or something like that? That was the de facto Big 12 championship game. Brutal.

At least it was 3-3 at the half, though. Boring punt-fest in the first half? Check. Boring blowout in the second half? Check.

KU regular season basketball game gets lower ratings than two Championship games is shocking?

Kansas-Duke drew almost as many viewers as Notre Dame-USC. And 4x what Nebraska-IL did.


I looked up Nebraskas ratings. Highest I could find was vs Michigan. Which had about 1/3 the viewers that Kansas-UNC elite 8 2012 did. Of course those football teams suck now.

KU Basketball on a 2nd tier cable channel on a Saturday afternoon pulled a 1.8 while the Missouri game against a marquee program on a network only drew .88

Ouch

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/article...atings-28.html

Down a field goal going into the 4th is being humiliated? Hell, we had the lead at about the mid-way point of the 3rd.

Mizzou lost. We've owned that. But they held their own against a team that's going to play for the national championship. They were ill-prepared for a team that played a style of ball not seen all season; shit happens.

They didn't quit. They didn't roll over. They gave Auburn all they could handle until the end. A short field leading to a gimme TD after a failed desperation 4th down made the score lopsided but that was a damn compelling football game.

'Humiliated' is counting a victory in the spring scrimmage among your Ws.

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MU’s original allotment was 12,500 tickets, but the school got an extra 1,000 from Cotton Bowl officials late Sunday night.
The game is officially sold out, but tickets are available on the secondary market, including Vivid Seats, which is MU’s official secondary ticket provider.
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Nobody cares about college basketball the ratings established this.

Soccer game nationally got a .5

Did you read your own link?? Or are you just grasping at straws and jumping at a false point?

KU basketball drew a 1.8 LOCALLY. Sporting more than doubled that.

MU-UCLA drew a 0.88 NATIONALLY, across 56 media markets. Not in its own backyard, where KU got the paltry 1.8 rating. It was also on at 11:30am here, which put it at 8:30am on the left coast. I would think timeslot plays a factor as well.