Big East basketball not among the top money-makers (McNamara - ProJo)

[huskymedic]

http://www.providencejournal.com/sp...asketball-not-among-top-money-makers/?Start=2

>>Quick, which conference is raking in the most money from the NCAA’s billion-dollar TV contract?

Is it the Big East, the home of newly crowned national champion Villanova? Not by a long shot. A great guess would be the Atlantic Coast Conference, the league that filled the Sweet 16 this March and absorbed many of the Big East’s marquee programs a few seasons ago. Wrong. How about the Big 12, the conference that seemingly always puts seven teams in the tourney? Not them either.

So which conference received a $29.3-million check from the NCAA’s $200-million basketball fund last spring?

The American Athletic Conference, which still has its offices a jump shot away from the Rhode Island State House. The American’s take from the pot was the largest in the country, easily eclipsing the total earned by the Big 10 ($24.5 million) and the Big 12 ($20.1).<<

>>Three years into the new world order, the Big East has the new national champion in Villanova, but the AAC continues to rake in millions from the good old days. Stretching back six seasons, the AAC is still getting paid for the efforts of six Final Four teams and three national championship runs: UConn in 2011 and '14 and Louisville in 2012.<<

 

[BoatShow]

http://www.providencejournal.com/sp...asketball-not-among-top-money-makers/?Start=2

>>Quick, which conference is raking in the most money from the NCAA’s billion-dollar TV contract?

Is it the Big East, the home of newly crowned national champion Villanova? Not by a long shot. A great guess would be the Atlantic Coast Conference, the league that filled the Sweet 16 this March and absorbed many of the Big East’s marquee programs a few seasons ago. Wrong. How about the Big 12, the conference that seemingly always puts seven teams in the tourney? Not them either.

So which conference received a $29.3-million check from the NCAA’s $200-million basketball fund last spring?

The American Athletic Conference, which still has its offices a jump shot away from the Rhode Island State House. The American’s take from the pot was the largest in the country, easily eclipsing the total earned by the Big 10 ($24.5 million) and the Big 12 ($20.1).<<

>>Three years into the new world order, the Big East has the new national champion in Villanova, but the AAC continues to rake in millions from the good old days. Stretching back six seasons, the AAC is still getting paid for the efforts of six Final Four teams and three national championship runs: UConn in 2011 and '14 and Louisville in 2012.<<

How dare the AAC make money off those UCONN titles

 

[willie99]

we better set the table for years to come, we have a conference to feed

 

[upstater]

We need to leave ASAP, because the river of money is going to stop flowing very soon.