You always hear about football and bowl games but do conferences get basketball money or does the NCAA keep it all? There's a lot of games on TV and the networks are paying big bucks for the rights.
How are NCAA dollars allocated for the BB Tourney?
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Some of the money trickles down to smaller conferences and teams. That why you have all these ridiculous schools that field a Div 1-A mens hoops team and every other sport is Div. III or whatever. It's a money grab by small fry. Also why football long ago parted with NCAA controlling the money(broadcasting).
According to the NCAA website, Monmouth Univ and Rider are both D1 in all the sports they sponsor.
As far as I know, there are no schools that are D1 just for men's basketball. I'm pretty sure the NCAA does not allow schools to sponsor D1 football or basketball unless they are D1 for all sports. The NCAA allows D2 or D3 schools that meet certain criteria to sponsor one D1 sport other than FB or BB (like Hopkins sponsoring D1 Lacrosse). But all D1 basketball schools must be D1 in all sports.
Monmouth previously was in the NEC (Northeast Conference) which is also a D1 conference.
I think you might be confused because Division 1 is divided into two subdivisions for football only: FBS (formerly D1-A) and FCS (formerly D1-AA). But those subdivisions only apply to football, not other sports. Division 1 also has special rules which apply to the P5 conferences (ACC, B10, B12, P12, SEC). But even though there is a wide range of talent between the P5 conferences and crappy conferences like the NEC, they are still all D1.
With only a handful of exceptions for sports other than football or basketball (like Johns Hopkins playing D1 Lacrosse in the Big Ten conference, and all other sports D3 in the Centennial Conference), all D1 schools have to sponsor all their sports as D1.
OK, that nag won't run, let me jump onto another horse.
What if the P5 said we want our own tournament and you other Cinderellas throw your own party. P5 could cut back a round (or two) and split the big money pot just among themselves, not the whole NCAA Div 1 and without a big slice coming off the top to finance the entire NCAA organizational overhead.
I know some hoops traditionalists and columnists will howl about how much they love the underdog story line, but I'm guessing the viewers and broadcasters would follow the P5 schools if push came to shove. You can say the NCAA tourney will continue, and it probably would. But there was a time when the NIT grabbed all the tourney attention things, as they have in the past, can change radically.
What if the P5 said we want our own tournament and you other Cinderellas throw your own party. P5 could cut back a round (or two) and split the big money pot just among themselves, not the whole NCAA Div 1 and without a big slice coming off the top to finance the entire NCAA organizational overhead.
I know some hoops traditionalists and columnists will howl about how much they love the underdog story line, but I'm guessing the viewers and broadcasters would follow the P5 schools if push came to shove. You can say the NCAA tourney will continue, and it probably would. But there was a time when the NIT grabbed all the tourney attention things, as they have in the past, can change radically.
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