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Northwestern building temporary stadium to play most football games for next two years

Daily - 04/11/2024

Northwestern will play “most of its home football games for the next two seasons at a temporary stadium yet to be constructed” at the Lanny & Sharon Martin athletics facility, which sits on the school’s campus, as it awaits the construction of the new Ryan Field , according...

UConn partners unveil plans for title celebration

Closing Bell - 04/10/2024

UConn’s corporate sponsors are finalizing activation plans in celebration of the Huskies second consecutive NCAA men’s basketball national championship . A parade celebrating the school’s sixth overall men’s hoops championship is planned for Saturday, beginning at 11:30am ET at the State Capitol Building in...

Florida judge denies ACC’s motion to postpone FSU lawsuit

Daily - 04/10/2024

A Florida judge “denied the ACC's motion” to postpone Florida State's lawsuit against the conference yesterday, as "dueling lawsuits between the two sides continue to move forward," according to Andrea Adelson of the ESPN.com. The decision “comes one week” after a judge in North Carolina ruled the ACC's lawsuit...

Despite growing ratings, women’s hoops TV money far behind men

Daily - 04/10/2024 | Daily - 04/10/2024

The "wide discrepancy" in the money earned on both sides from the NCAA men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments “raises the question of whether college athletics officials have failed to capitalize on a surge in popularity in the women’s game,” according to Bachman & Simonetti of the WALL STREET...

Seen and heard around March Madness

College Newsletter - 04/09/2024

The week in Phoenix brought a slew of major powerbrokers to the Final Four. Commissioners Jim Phillips (ACC), Greg Sankey (SEC) and Tony Petitti (Big Ten) all attended Saturday’s games. Fox Sports executive Jordan Bazant was in and around the festivities as well, while NCAA President Charlie Baker...

Purdue, UConn balancing fundraising efforts in runs to national championship

College Newsletter - 04/09/2024

Dave Benedict inherited a mess. Joining UConn in 2018, Benedict took over an athletic department in desperate need of facility upgrades and that was battling a budgetary shortfall reportedly in the $40 million range. But after almost eight years of facelifts and a men’s basketball product...

What’s next for college basketball? Checking in with NCAA’s Dan Gavitt

Unpacks Newsletter - 04/10/2024 | College Newsletter - 04/09/2024

Dan Gavitt is a busy man these days. The NCAA’s SVP/basketball has his hands full with everything from the transfer portal to helping capitalize on the growth of the women’s game over the last handful of years. “It's so exciting and fulfilling to know that both events...

Why the sports safety experience gap matters

Unpacks Newsletter - 04/09/2024

We’re living through a sports safety renaissance. But you wouldn’t know it based on reports that parents are increasingly keeping their children out of sports over concerns about injuries. All this as many sports -- from football to baseball to F1 and beyond -- have pioneered countless innovations that...

NCAA Tournament telecasts net brands $482 million of in-game exposure

Unpacks Newsletter - 04/09/2024

Brands earned $482 million in sponsorship exposure value from the 2024 NCAA Men's and Women's Tournaments, SBJ's David Broughton reports off data from Hive, an AI company that measures the presence of branding embedded in media. A total of 136 brands (61 during the men's tournament and 75...

Men’s NCAA title game lower than women, but tourney still sees year-over-year growth

Morning Buzz - 04/10/2024 | College Newsletter - 04/09/2024

Even with the second-lowest audience on record for a men’s championship game, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament finished with a 3% viewership uptick this year as more well-known teams made deeper runs. UConn’s title win on Monday over Purdue delivered 14.82 million viewers for TBS, truTV and TNT,...

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Northwestern building temporary stadium to play most football games for next two years

UConn partners unveil plans for title celebration

Florida judge denies ACC’s motion to postpone FSU lawsuit

Despite growing ratings, women’s hoops TV money far behind men

Seen and heard around March Madness

Purdue, UConn balancing fundraising efforts in runs to national championship

What’s next for college basketball? Checking in with NCAA’s Dan Gavitt

Why the sports safety experience gap matters

NCAA Tournament telecasts net brands $482 million of in-game exposure

Men’s NCAA title game lower than women, but tourney still sees year-over-year growth

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