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National popularity of college basketball teams

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Facebook fun: How each NCAA tournament region breaks down in number of ?likes?

Louisville may be the top No. 1 seed in this year's NCAA tournament, but the Cardinals still have a lot of work to do when it comes to being the most "liked" team in their own bracket.

Our good friends at Facebook have been slicing and dicing some tourney-specific data for us all day long and what you see above is the breakdown of team popularity when it comes to the Midwest Region. Facebook tabulated the number of likes for each team in the region and then awarded each county in the United States to the school with the most number of likes in that county. As you can see, Louisville owns an expected stronghold in Kentucky and southern Indiana, but it's clearly a Duke world in a majority of the country.


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Very cool maps. Really helps drive home why UNC & Duke would have value to the B1G beyond cable boxes in NC, although I wish they'd do one for all 64 teams in addition to the four 16 team maps.
Indiana is huge and the Indiana/Illinois dividing line is very cool.
Ohio State is surprisingly strong in the SE (especially FL), while UF is only dominate in one region of the state.
BTW what's up with Morgan(?) Co?

Meanwhile Missouri is surprisingly weak.... in Missouri.
 
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Found the original article on FB, it does indeed have more maps than the original four...

Conference:
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Looks like St. Louis is B1G territory.

Just the #1 seeds:
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UNC vs Duke:
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TSUN vs Sparty:
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Kansas vs Kansas St (ouch!):
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Cinderellas:
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What's up with Juggalo county Mississippi?

Gizmodo has some comments.
  • The biggest support for a Cinderella is for (16) seeds Liberty and NC A&T
  • The ACC has an oddly strong foothold in the western and middle America states
  • Gonzaga has a huge hometown advantage in all the cities it might play in in its region
  • The entire country, perversely, wants Duke to win the Midwest. Louisville has a hometown advantage, though.
  • Indiana is the most popular #1 seed, taking higher population density areas.
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scott91575;2317111; said:
This proves nothing for Duke and NC. Football drives the bus. Basketball is in the back of the bus banging it's head against the window.
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Which is why the BB only Big East signed a much larger media deal than the FB centric conference to be named later.

People need to stop focusing on single metrics. Nebraska & Maryland/Rutgers were added for very different reasons. UNC/Duke BB would add significant value to the BTN.
 
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Aha! It does exist (all 68 teams)!

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The super giant version can be found HERE.

The great walls of Indiana & Illinois are still very impressive to me. Missouri is an afterthought in it's own state. Seriously FU Morgan Co!

Facebook Data Give Us The Best Fandom Map of the NCAA Tournament

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There were 13 states in which at least 80 percent of all counties rooted for a single local team. Eight of these states were in the Midwest, a part of the country that doesn't pussyfoot around with its sports fandom. Indiana, the mecca of amateur basketball, gets the clean sweep: all 92 of its counties went Hoosiers. In Illinois, only tiny and traitorous Alexander County at the very southern tip of the state went against the Illini, supporting Indiana instead. The University of Wisconsin lost six counties to Marquette, The University of Michigan lost just seven(!) to Michigan State, OSU lost four to Cincinnati and Akron, plus a surprising six more to rival Michigan, and Louisville lost five to WKU. (These two teams have maddeningly similar colors. If you open the map in Photoshop and root around, I promise you that the WKU counties are in there, around Bowling Green.)

While Minnesota and Iowa have just one team apiece in the Dance, a scattering of counties still defected to various out-of-state schools.

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Out of the 68-team bracket, only 17 schools had zero counties support them. Just five of these teams were 12-seeds or better: California (12), Belmont (11), Temple (9), Notre Dame (7), and Saint Louis (4). The Fighting Irish and the Owls get a pass, since I would have been shocked to see any county in Indiana go against the Hooisers, and Villanova is clearly the fan favorite of the greater Philadelphia area. Belmont and Saint Louis are mid-majors. That leaves Cal as the most baffling: the prestigious public university didn't manage to snag even one of the eight counties that make up the Bay Area. One went to also-local Saint Mary's, six went to Kansas, Duke, or UNC, and San Francisco, for some reason, went to Michigan.

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While both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State made the Big Dance, these two schools only account for 20 of the state's 77 counties (26 percent). Thirty-three counties went for Kansas (43 percent), while 15 went for Duke or UNC (19 percent). C'mon, the Cowboys are a five-seed!

Missouri is even worse. The Show-Me State is also sending two programs, the University of Missouri and Saint Louis. Saint Louis gets nothing, while the Tigers account for just three of the state's 114 counties (3 percent). That's fewer than went for Duke (five), Illinois (seven), UNC (13), or Kansas (78, or 68 percent). Butler, a mid-major two states away, picks up two counties despite not winning any in Indiana.
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Muck;2317131; said:
Which is why the BB only Big East signed a much larger media deal than the FB centric conference to be named later.

People need to stop focusing on single metrics. Nebraska & Maryland/Rutgers were added for very different reasons. UNC/Duke BB would add significant value to the BTN.
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You are comparing apples to oranges. The rebranded Big East is going to be a garbage football conference and the Catholic 7 and friends (new Big East I guess) will be a top level basketball conference. Here is what the revenue is like with everything held constant...

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigeast/post/_/id/18504/comparing-football-basketball-revenues

Note in that article that is overall revenue, not money based on just tv.

Let's also compare that tv deal the new Big East is expected to sign. It's 12 years for $500 million. There will be about 10-12 schools. Let's say 10. That is an average of $4.2 million per year for each school in what should be one of the top basketball conferences in the country (it will be an uneven distribution with the main teams making $5 million per, but let's stick with averages). In the B12, B10, SEC, and ACC all teams average at least $15 million per year on their tv deals (with most making much more). Many are also on older deal, and by the time that new Big East deal is done it will be a pitance. So even in it's best light, in a major basketball conference, the best they could do is about 1/4 of the tv money seen with teams that have basketball and football in major conferences. Once that deal ages some, it would probably drop to around 15%, which is about right for basketball. In other words, for major conferences with both football and basketball, the football part of a tv will make up around 85% of the deal.

The major television deal in basketball is the tournament, and of course that is not a conference thing. Regular season basketball is simply no where near as popular as football for television. The ratings are often atrocious, even for top teams like Duke and North Carolina (unless they are playing one another). Adding a team for basketball television revenue simply doesn't make any sense.

So yes, football does drive the bus. I will say this though, Duke and NC are major basketball attractions. Yet they still don't drive anywhere near the tv deals for a conference like football. NC would not be bad since they are actually not terrible for football. Yet Duke in no way should be considered an option.
 
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I'm surprised Ohio is a lot more scUM [censored] yellow than Akron dark blue.
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I'm not. Living in Cleveland in the late 90's, I used to see more M*ch*gan fans than Ohio State fans. Since 2001, though, either the demographic has shifted, or the M*ch*gan fans have gone into hiding. I know that economic issues have forced people to move around - including out of northeast Ohio. But I tend to think that their fans are still here - waiting to pounce on a couple of years' worth of success they have.

As for Akron, I don't think most people in Cleveland even know that there are real sports being played in Akron. Akron has Cleveland's AA baseball team. I think that most people think that just as Akron is 2 steps below the major leagues in baseball, Akron is 2 steps below NCAA Division I in basketball and football.
 
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