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SBD/5/The Back Of The Book
DUKE, CAROLINA EMERGE AS MASTERS OF TV DOMAIN THIS SEASON
Published March 5, 1998
THE DAILY tracked regular season men's college
basketball telecasts on ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN and ESPN2,
starting with ESPN's November 4 Georgia-NC State game and
ending with CBS's March 1 broadcasts of UCLA-Washington and
Purdue-Michigan State. The chart below lists schools ranked
in either the AP or USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 poll on March 2,
according to their number of appearances on one of the five
networks. Duke and North Carolina, with 19 appearances
each, topped our rankings, followed by Kansas with 18 and
Kentucky with 14. Figuring an average telecast length of
two hours per game, those four teams logged more TV hours
this season than one season's worth of 22 original half-hour
episodes of "Seinfeld" and "Friends" combined (THE DAILY).
BREAKDOWN: CBS aired 46 games featuring 47 different
teams. Indiana, Georgetown and Louisville were among
unranked teams featured prominently, appearing four times
each. ABC aired 28 games with 33 different teams, with Wake
Forest the only unranked team broadcast more than twice.
NBC aired four Big East games with seven different teams.
ESPN/ESPN2 carried a total of 216 games. Schedules were
obtained from each network. (^) = schools which
participated in preseason tournaments, which add to
regularly scheduled TV appearances (THE DAILY).
|
APPEARANCES
ON NETWORK
|
|||||||
|
TEAM
|
ABC
|
CBS
|
NBC
|
ESPN
|
ESPN2
|
TOTAL
|
|
|
1)
|
DUKE^ |
4
|
2
|
0
|
10
|
3
|
19
|
| UNC^ |
3
|
2
|
0
|
9
|
5
|
19
|
|
|
3)
|
KANSAS^ |
3
|
3
|
0
|
12
|
0
|
18
|
|
4)
|
KENTUCKY |
1
|
5
|
0
|
8
|
0
|
14
|
|
5)
|
UCONN^ |
0
|
3
|
0
|
7
|
2
|
12
|
|
6)
|
SYRACUSE |
0
|
3
|
1
|
4
|
3
|
11
|
|
7)
|
ARIZONA^ |
2
|
3
|
0
|
4
|
3
|
10
|
| UMASS |
2
|
0
|
0
|
5
|
3
|
10
|
|
| PURDUE |
0
|
3
|
0
|
6
|
1
|
10
|
|
|
10)
|
UCLA^ |
4
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
9
|
| MARYLAND |
2
|
0
|
0
|
6
|
1
|
9
|
|
|
12)
|
CINCINNATI |
1
|
2
|
0
|
3
|
2
|
8
|
| SOUTH CAROLINA |
0
|
3
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
8
|
|
| TEMPLE |
1
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
4
|
8
|
|
|
14)
|
ILLINOIS |
0
|
3
|
0
|
4
|
0
|
7
|
| MICHIGAN |
0
|
4
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
7
|
|
| UTAH |
1
|
1
|
0
|
3
|
2
|
7
|
|
|
18)
|
WEST VIRGINIA |
0
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
6
|
|
19)
|
ARKANSAS |
0
|
2
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
5
|
| XAVIER |
1
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
5
|
|
|
21)
|
NEW MEXICO |
0
|
1
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
4
|
| MICHIGAN ST |
0
|
1
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
4
|
|
| OKLAHOMA ST |
1
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
1
|
4
|
|
| PRINCETON |
0
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
1
|
4
|
|
| TCU |
0
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
1
|
4
|
|
|
26)
|
STANFORD |
0
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
|
27)
|
MISSISSIPPI |
0
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
