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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4322874, member: 44"] This article breaks out the differences in expenditures very well. For those hoping for some nefarious agenda by the NCAA, you will be disappointed. The question I have is whether they include any amount of deemed revenue for media rights for the women’s tournament. Since all the tournaments are sold as a group, I don’t know how much of total revenue from that sale, if any is actually allocated to the women’s tournament. If, for example, there is a zero media rights allocation, and we took the $34 million that we know ESPN pays to CBS for the broadcast rights to the woman’s tournament and allocated it to the women’s tournament, then instead of an a loss we are looking at about a $12 million profit. No, it’s not anywhere near the $1.1 billion profit that the men’s tournament earns, but it’s a material number well ahead of any other NCAA tournament. [/QUOTE]