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Message: [QUOTE="hoopsfan22, post: 4269692, member: 9074"] They get TV money but that's part of an overall contract for tourney coverage. In other words no one knows what teams will be in the tourney or what the matchups will be since those contracts are made years in advance and pay out for the tourney as a whole and not individual games. As for the ticket sales in Bridgeport, I don't think it really mattered given how many tickets were already sold to individuals and brokers before the brackets were even revealed. Had UConn not been placed in Bridgeport attendance would have been much lower, but in that case it's the individuals and brokers who bought large blocks of tickets in anticipation of UConn being there that would have been left holding the bag while the NCAA counted its cash. [/QUOTE]