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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4964504, member: 1131"] I just saw a story on the NBC 11 PM local news which documented a pattern of student applications for admission to UConn spiking in years when either the men or the women win a basketball championship. Last year's MBB championship caused this year's applications to grow from 46,000 to 57,000, and the pattern supposedly has existed in every year following either an MBB or a WBB championship. Besides being interesting in itself, this also casts an important light on the discussions about the alleged financial losses of the MBB and WBB programs and the salaries being paid to Geno and Danny Hurley. If success on the basketball court really causes a substantial and measurable increase in applications to UConn, and thereby allows UConn to be more academically selective in its admissions, that is a tangible academic benefit to the university which helps to justify whatever subsidy the two programs receive. [/QUOTE]