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Week 12 - Men's Basketball Top 25 rankings: Associated Press and Attendance 🏀 UNC remains #1 in attendance, tops 20K average. 9️⃣ Nine teams ranked in AP but not Top 25 attendance: Houston Auburn Oklahoma Duke Baylor Utah St Texas Tech Florida Atlantic Colorado State We help collegiate athletic departments build insight-driven growth strategies to grow fan bases. Ring us when you're ready to accelerate your efforts. We meet you where you are...accelerating growing efforts, fan base renovation, or starting from scratch. #sports #sportsbiz #sportsmarketing #innovation

Congrats to the campus alumni families at the University of Michigan University of Michigan Athletics and the University of Washington University of Washington Intercollegiate Athletics as well as their #AnnArbor #Detroit #Seattle communities for an epic season of championship football. The 10th and last iteration of the current College Football Playoff format will be one to remember. This year's championship is a provocative bookend to the #CFBPlayoff. Both the first and the last iteration of the 4-team format pit two campuses from the northern half of the country against two schools from the southern half. In a repeat of 2014, this year the two north-side campuses advance to the championship, one from the Big Ten Conference and one from the Pac-12 Conference (same conferences as in 2014). Mind-blowing symmetry. 🤯 The symmetry would be cosmic or divine if an undefeated Florida State University had made the playoff this year, as they too were a semifinalist back in 2014. Regardless, #FSU's litigation with the Atlantic Coast Conference has ensured that the #CollegeSports industry will always look back on this moment as an inflection point on how it conducts business. Filling the bookends, the Southeastern Conference has been represented in all BUT two #CFBPlayoff championships...the first (2014) AND NOW the last (2023). Again...mind-blowing. This edition of championship #CollegeFootball is ready for print. https://lnkd.in/gtuGBwmD

In the final year of its current four-team iteration, the College Football Playoff concluded with a bang - generating over 25M viewers for the National Championship game at NRG Stadium and over 27M viewers for the University of Michigan - The University of Alabama semifinal in the Rose Bowl Game. The Michigan-Washington championship game was the most-watched National Championship in four years, falling just shy of the pre-pandemic numbers seen for LSU's victory over Clemson in 2020. ESPN executives were surely pleased to see numbers rebound 45% YOY from 2023's Georgia-TCU National Championship, which was the least-watched such game since at least the 1992-93 season. The 2006 Texas-USC matchup continues its reign as the most-watched National Championship game in the modern era, peaking at 35.6M viewers. With the expanded 12-team CFP model coming online for the upcoming 2024-25 season, four first-round games will be held on school campuses. The winners of those games advance to play one of the top four seeds in a rotation of the current New Year's Six: Cotton, Fiesta, Peach, Orange, Rose, and Sugar. The 2024-25 and 2025-26 National Championship games will be held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium, respectively. #SportsBiz #sports #college #university #collegefootball #football #ratings #viewership #television #streaming #playoff #tourism #sportsbusiness #sportsmarketing #branding #linkedinsports

Iowa/LSU Elite Eight game was the most-watched college basketball game EVER on ESPN! 12.3 million viewers. Until, Iowa/UCONN Final Four game, which is now the most-watched college basketball game EVER on ESPN! 14.2 million viewers. Iowa/South Carolina Championship game today will have even more viewers and become the most EVER watched college basketball game, especially since it will air on ABC 🤗 It’s good business to invest in women’s sports, the fabric is different. 😍 How many viewers do you think will watch today??? #WomenInSports #WomensSports #LinkedinSports #Sports

IT'S MARCH MADNESS! Listen, I get that not everyone is well versed in the art of basketball. Check out this guide to all things March Madness, and tag me in your brackets. Who do you think will take home the victory? #TheNewmannGroup #RogueValleyRealEstate #SouthernOregonRealEstate

The Oakland Athletics will share a stadium with the Sacramento River Cats for three seasons prior to moving to #LasVegas, the team said Thursday. The Cats are the Triple A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. This kinda makes sense but dunno how the Sacramento team will feel having to play with a Double A [quality] #MLB team. It's a long time since Moneyball and all Billy Beane's awesomeness was ripped off by teams with scads more $$. Still, the A's, while enduring a recent three-game sweep by the Boston Red Sox [Go Sox!], drew about 4,000 fans per game, easily half being Sox fans. Sacto's stadium capacity is 10,000. The A's did average 10K last year, but either way it's #NoProblem In true Major League Baseball (MLB) fashion there's a club option for a fourth year. The A's will be called the Athletics or the A's for their time in Sacramento, dropping the word 'Oakland' — which can also only be good from a #branding perspective. Not just dropping the #Oakland part, but having no city at all on their name for four years. Then, what happens in #Vegas ... well, you know. Vegas a'course is already well into becoming a sports mecca — the now Las Vegas Raiders, the Las Vegas Aces, the Vegas Golden Knights — a boon for #convention-goers staying an extra day or entertaining #clients, sunburn-easily #tourists, and local residents. There are two Vegases after all: that 'what happens in' one, and the family-friendly one. Both can be pleased with the arrival of the A's, who perhaps will then have the dosh to keep players after working so hard to develop them ... only to see them currently and after several seasons decamp for hefty salary cities. They're building a $1.1B stadium in the #Nevada desert. Benjamin Siegel wd be proud. #baseball #sportsbusiness #sports #betting

My newest Substack article about the Top 25 remaining players in the NCAA Tournament is a fascinating read and should spark much debate

The South Carolina-Iowa game was a huge hit, with a staggering 18.9 million viewers tuning in to watch the game. This makes it the most-watched basketball game since 2019! Stay up-to-date with the latest insights from @Nielsen and learn more about what's trending in the world of sports. Check out the link below! https://bit.ly/3TR0B85

College Football Playoff: ESPN's Exclusive Coverage and National Championship Game Get ready for an exciting college football season! ESPN has announced that it will be presenting all the college football playoff games, including the highly anticipated national championship. Find out all the details in this video. #CollegeFootballPlayoff #ESPNCoverage #NationalChampionship #FootballSeason #ExcitingGames #CollegeSports #FootballFans #SportsCoverage #FootballPlayoffs #ChampionshipGame

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