How much $$$$ does Memphis earn for itself/CUSA?

[Sewanee Stang]

Is a Final Four appearance as lucrative as a BCS bowl? How does the conference divide it's share of the revenue?

[George S. Patton]

Ask Walker-to-Rote, he has the skinny.

[friarwolf]

http://www1.ncaa.org/finance/revenue_distribution_plan


See # 5.............

[EastStang]

It didn't give a breakdown for the Title game, but I think we are at about $900,000 for the conference. Which means about $80,000 per team at this point depending on how CUSA splits the money. Tulsa probably won't get any conference money for the CBI. I think its pretty much a break-even proposition.

[Stallion]

Here's an answer to a similiar question asked:. I think these cedits stay with the conference for the referenced 6 year period so a good season has a recurring residual value in future years.


Financially speaking, what does that victory do for the conference?

You really have to define that in two ways. First, there's the specific NCAA payout from its basketball fund. Each conference gets a credit for any team selected to the field, and one additional credit for each victory (up to the finals). These credits are assigned a revenue number based on how everything shakes out and paid over six years.

Last year, each credit was worth approximately $152,000. Based on that number, VCUs win over Duke was worth $912,000 to the conference. (I needed my calculator for that.)

But the number that is probably most important yet most incalculable is what they do with that money. It becomes a cycle of improvement: use the money for more teevee, which attracts better players to member schools, which makes them better which means more success and more bids, etc.

On the other hand, the schools can use their cut of that money from the conference to improve facilities, which attracts better players, and so on and so on...