(04-18-2011 02:27 PM)SF Husky Wrote: UCONN definitely separated itself from the next group. BTW, do you have TV rating numbers for Indiana this year? I like to see how it compares to a program say West Virginia or Purdue.
I don't think you're quite understanding what I'm saying. I'm not arguing that Indiana draws higher ratings than schools that are better than them in a particular season. What I'm saying is that they are one of the few schools that still draw larger than average attention even when they're bad.
Anyway, here are some stats from the one weekend this year where Indiana was playing on CBS along with 4 other games (which is all that I've seen published publicly involving Indiana):
Sat, 2/26 - Syracuse/Georgetown - 1.1 rating (1.630 million viewers)
Sat, 2/26 - BYU/San Diego State - 1.6 (2.460 million)
Sat, 2/26 - Florida/Kentucky - 1.6 (2.435 million)
Sun, 2/27 - Pitt/Louisville - 1.2 (1.671 million)
Sun, 2/27 - Indiana/Ohio State - 1.3 (1.866 million)
http://www.sportsmediawatch.net/2011/03/...-last.html
The Indiana/Ohio State game was by FAR the worst of those matchups on paper even heading into that game (and it held true to form as a 21-point blowout), yet it still drew a pretty good rating considering the mismatch and got higher ratings than 2 BE games on CBS (once again, all on the same weekend). When Indiana is actually playing well, its ratings are right up there at the top.