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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 2730263, member: 44"] [I]UConn is New York City's Team In 2010-11, UConn Men's Basketball was the Most Viewed Big East Conference Team in New York City • A combined 1.35 million households watched UConn basketball games in the New York DMA that were televised on ESPN or ESPN2. That number doubled the number of households watching Syracuse games on ESPN or ESPN2 and was five times more than the number of households that watched Rutgers on ESPN or ESPN2. • The top two-rated Syracuse men's basketbalf games in the New York DMA in 2010-11 were in fact games against UConn. • UConn's five games in the BIG EAST tournament were watched by a combined 590,000 combined households in the New York DMA, while 385,000 watched Syracuse games - a number which was inflated with one game against hometown St. John's. SNY (SportsNet New York) Recognizes The Popularity Of The UConn Brand • SportsNet New York (SNY) is the New York TV home of the New York Mets and the BIG EAST Conference. Although they have relationships with Syracuse, Rutgers, Seton Hall and St. John's, the UConn-SNY relationship is unique as, the network devotes over 300 programming hours a year to both UConn men's basketball and football. This number of program hours is almost double the number of hours devoted to Rutgers programming and Syracuse receives only two- third of that amount of hours. • Not only does SNY show more UConn games than those of any other school, they also present live pre-game and post-game shows of UConn events, a broadcast of weekly football press conferences, weekly rebroadcasts of football and men's basketball games, and condensed versions of football replays. This programming is unique to UConn and SNY when compared to other BIG EAST schools. • UConn men's basketball games were watched by a combined 355,000 households on SNY during the 2010-11 season over the course of 13 games. These 13 games were contests that were not selected by ESPN or ESPN2. A total of 120,000 combined households in the New York DMA watched UConn basketball on SNY before January 1, 2011 - when overall interest in college basketball is low. • In 2011-12, UConn will make 13 appearances on SNY, while Syracuse, Rutgers and St. John's will each make fewer than 10. UConn Dominates New York, Madison Square Garden, And The BIG EAST Tournament • UConn has won seven BIG EAST Tournament Championships at Madison Square Garden - the most of any school. • Over the past ten years, UConn is the on!y school to rank among the top two league institutions in tickets purchased to the tournament by their supports. The other school paired with UConn has varied greatly over the years. • The UConn women's basketball team played before a crowd of 15.232 against Ohio State in Madison Square Garden in December 2010 - the second-largest crowd for a women's basketball game (college or professional} at MSG. Although Relatively New, UConn Football is Popular in Both New York and Boston • In three of the last four years, UConn's national television rating of its bowl game has been higher than the Rutgers bowl game - including doubling the mark in 2007 and 2011. • In a recent New York Times article*, UConn was ranked ahead of Syracuse among the most popular college football teams in the New York DMA, and UConn was the only BIG EAST school listed among the top five most popular college football teams In both the New York and Boston DMAs. [/I] realignment-chaos/ Prepared: October 18, 2011 [/QUOTE]

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