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Originally Posted by Bambi
Plus we're not even mentioning the fact that there was a HUGE jump in viewers because Notre Dame played in the Championship game.
This means you get Chicago and New York plus all the other big Northeast cities when usually college football is toiling away trying to convince everyone that Birmingham is a bustling metropolis.
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I don't even know what that means or what you're trying to say? Do you?
I don't think anyone has ever tried to argue that March Madness is a bad draw or not popular. It's an incredibly well put together tournament that brings in millions of viewers and TONS of money. That being said, hoops still doesn't trump college football...in viewership, money, relevance, popularity, etc.
Regular season college basketball is even worse. Roughly 80% of all televised games drew between a 0.0 and 0.4 TV rating. Do you know what that equals out to? About 550,000 viewers. On the absolute high end. That's pathetic and there's basically nothing else that needs to be said about the relevance of the CBB regular season. NO ONE CARES.
Just for fun, let's continue though: Of all televised regular season CBB games in the entire 2013-14 season, exactly NINE came in at a 2.0 or higher. NINE. College football knocked out 7 games above 2.0 on a single regular season Saturday, and on average has 4-5/week.
Since basketball is the holy grail at your beloved KU, lets see how many people outside of Lawrence/KC tuned in to watch...
KU-Duke: 2.1 this is the ONE game that was a "decent" national draw
KU-KSU: neither rivalry game against Kstate could even crack 1.0
KU-Florida: 0.9 which most would consider a prime game
KU @ Iowa St 1.1, Iowa St @ KU was a piss poor 0.3 (411k watched this game against ranked opponents!)
Hell, more people watched Mizzou-Alabama bball game than the KU-Texas game on the same day this February. Again I realize the point of this post is not to bag on KU and mainly to show needle dick how irrelevant his favorite sport is, but this is the shit talk thread afterall.
Back to the point. Can you not see all this proof? Nobody cares about CBB until the 3rd weekend in March. The absolute highest rated regular season game in all of college basketball this year was Duke vs Syracuse that registered a whopping 2.9 rating. Texas A&M against RICE did that in week 1 on the college football season! Cant argue facts.
If you have any evidence contradicting this or that shows I'm wrong, please add it to this discussion.