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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3500299, member: 730"] Am I wrong or is NCAA tournament money distributed to conferences and not teams? If so, then it has been the P-5 conferences that have received the bulk of those funds. I'd like to see exactly how much has gone to the mid-major D1 schools. They almost always get but one team in the tournament and most of those are eliminated early. The bulk of the money goes to those P5 conferences that get 7-9 teams in. It would seem to me that if football is cancelled in the fall it will be the power conferences that will be forced to tighten their belts, not the smaller conferences. Football may be the cash cow but it also consumes the bulk of any university's athletic budget. I would guess that their are entire conferences that don't spend on their entire range of athletics what a school like Alabama spends on football alone. And that's fine until the football revenue disappears. Of course there is no problem at well endowed schools like Stanford & Harvard .... unless their endowment fund takes a major hit from the current investment crash. [/QUOTE]