Video: Dan Hurley 2025-26 season wrap-up - 4/14/26

[TUCBTUD]

 

[jibsey]

He mentioned March Madness being a billion dollar industry. How does that filter down to the teams? Do they all get the same?

 

[auror]

He mentioned March Madness being a billion dollar industry. How does that filter down to the teams? Do they all get the same?

NCAA keeps a bunch of it to run all the championships in each division and pay their staff and stuff. But each game played in the NCAA tournament by a team is worth a tournament unit credit, and that pays out around $2 million to their conferences (who split it among their members, sometimes evenly sometimes more to the team that earned it).

 

[jibsey]

Seems like a paltry sum for the top performing teams to get. This is paid pro sports.

 

[NJHusky]

NCAA keeps a bunch of it to run all the championships in each division and pay their staff and stuff. But each game played in the NCAA tournament by a team is worth a tournament unit credit, and that pays out around $2 million to their conferences (who split it among their members, sometimes evenly sometimes more to the team that earned it).

That's why the ncaa is terrified of the P4....if they brokered their own tournament (like in FB), the ncaa would be broke...so the p4 can do whatever they want and the ncaa won't do a thing.

 

[EBonz30]

Masterful job by Hurley in explaining the culture of the program & his expectations of new players or even coaches coming into the program- no surprise he has become the best coach in the Country & leads the best program in America.

 

[Hi-Low]

Excited to see the full Non-Conference schedule Hurley says will "blow us away"

 

[UC0NN]

Dan talking about Eric in the most respectful way possible is more than classy. And also mentioning how he rooted for Mahaney all year long just shows you the human side of Dan Hurley. And how much he truly cares.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

NCAA keeps a bunch of it to run all the championships in each division and pay their staff and stuff. But each game played in the NCAA tournament by a team is worth a tournament unit credit, and that pays out around $2 million to their conferences (who split it among their members, sometimes evenly sometimes more to the team that earned it).

it a tad more complicated than that
The participants are paid from a annual pool of $270,000,000 free each appearance in every round is worth 2 million technically to the conference not the team
That tourney grosses $1.2 billion
My personal opinion is the pot could be doubled but that’s me
Remember men’s basketball finance NCAA administration costs, which are excellent, plus annual convention
also most Championships at every level , plus a distribution for scholarships money to members
There are 1100 member schools in the NCAA
You
you can increase major conference revenue without breaking away
Or even expanding the tournament
Reduce the participation of conferences from 32 to 20 or even 16
You automatically make $24,000,0000. To $32,000,000 available
People wouldn’t notice the difference
You could even keep 32 , D1 conferences with a relegation
A P4 tournament is a stupid idea even for them

 

[tuvent08]

I loved what Hurley said about staying up late to watch Aidan and rooting hard for him this season. That's culture.