In Reply to: The 2024 WBB championship game had 18.9 million viewers... posted by Born2BBruin on April 07, 2025 at 08:50:53
The women's tournament earns $65 million from TV. $15 million of that is paid to teams and that is going up to $20 million next year.
The two events are bound to have different budgets for logistics.
BTW, the women's tournament is in an 8-year deal, which extends for 7 more years with ESPN. They aren't going to get a big raise for a long time.