Different numbers than Billybud.The FOX broadcast network scored a 0.7 rating and 1.13 million viewers for Saturday’s Villanova-Seton Hall Big East Tournament final, down 22% in ratings and 24% in viewership from last year (Villanova-Providence: 0.9, 1.49M).
Cincinnati-Houston American Athletic Conference final drew a 0.75 (-45%) and 1.19 million (-43%) on ESPN; last year’s final aired on CBS.
Different numbers than Billybud.
It will be interesting to see the viewer ratings for the AAC games when they shift to ESPN+.
Different numbers than Billybud.
AND it wasn't on broadcast TV. Pretty bad indictment for the Big East on FOX.As BIllybud said, numbers are adjusted for overnight. The AAC final without its conference heavyweight outdrew your "thriving" Big East with its conference heavyweight.
AND it wasn't on broadcast TV. Pretty bad indictment for the Big East on FOX.
Our games won't be streamed on Fox+. They are on TV
The 1/2 empty A10 tournament disproves your theory.The premise that sold-out venues being any sort of indication that a conference is "thriving" is absolutely comical and completely misplaced. You can just as easily find 19,000 New Yorkers to go to Madison Square Garden to watch a championship high school basketball game.
The 1/2 empty A10 tournament disproves your theory.
The 1/2 empty A10 tournament disproves your theory.
Young folks (and some of us old folks with senior moments) forget about how the old Big East did capture the national interest in basketball.
Even a southern (primarily football) fan like me watched the old Big East.
The last title game of the original conference, Louisville-Syracuse on ESPN in 2013, had a 2.1 and 3.4 million rating. Double this year's.
UConn and Pitt, in the 2000's had one of the better rivalries in basketball...
Like the 2002 final which had Talik Brown hitting a three as UConn won in double OT....the teams met again in the 2003 and 2004 Finals (both won one).
The 1996 BE Championship game where UConn took on Georgetown's Allen Iverson and won with Ray Allen's shot as the clock ticked down (the Battle of the Allen's).
And yes, I remember when Georgetown and Nova faced off in the National Champiionship game..
And John Thompson and his Hoyas playing UNC in the national title game...with Patrick Ewing, Sleepy Floyd, Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, and Anthony Jones from that game all going in the first round.
No...for those of us who remember...the New Big East is not the BIG EAST.
Do you (did you) go to any of these games (AAC or Big East Tournaments) first hand?
Why would I?
The 1/2 empty A10 tournament disproves your theory.
When the formerly "must watch" Big East Final has fallen to the level where more folks watched the MWC Final...and the awful PAC 12 Final....well, it is not the Big East we all once knew.
The FOX broadcast network scored a 0.7 rating and 1.13 million viewers for Saturday’s Villanova-Seton Hall Big East Tournament final, down 22% in ratings and 24% in viewership from last year (Villanova-Providence: 0.9, 1.49M).
The BE Final has become a local event, a nice night out in New York...but is no longer the national must watch basketball event of the year.
you can just as easily find 19,000 New Yorkers to go to MSG to watch a high school championship game.
A10 half empty in NYC.
It's the Big East. 2 of the last 3 NCAA Championships.