March Madness Video

This is the sports professor Rick -- the sports business minute March Madness the winners for about. First of all graduation rates there of about 5020%. There's seven schools that graduated every single basketball player.

on a couch for a day you my eyes will be watching March Madness I'm Rick Carl.

Would be juniors in college -- you decided to go that route. March Madness is now upon us do you think it all about that with -- longhorns get ready to embark on their quest.

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This is the sports professor Rick Karl at the inside story. March Madness . You know this time a year talk about lines. And lance and shamrock. And now we talk about brackets and widgets and yeah March Madness . Only problem this year March Madness ends on April 6 at Ford Field Detroit. But duplicate tickets and television economy got a good handle on how the tournament is really going. First of all our tickets Michael -- president tickets in America dot com tells us that the early rounds and conference championships not doing too well. Big East tournament Madison Square Garden down 50%. As far as ticket values and revenues they need to improve. As far as television concern really the Internet. 150% increase March Madness on demand and because of the weak kids that tied to statistics at all it'll be easy to be. If five million unique viewers and change it to a whole new level Internet at every level is Nikita March Madness . Finally corporate sponsorship. Pontiac eighteen team. Others have re -- in fact 30% increase in ad revenue over the previous year even in this economy which of course is darn good. But then there the auto makers member of the Big Three tours in Detroit and the tar and -- bailout money -- touch this. General Motors down 60%. As far as their advertising from March Madness is concerned. They may not even show up at this week that they've got a Ford Field. And then there's the inevitable loss of productivity. The studies talk about two. Billion dollars last year of lost productivity from workers watching March Madness this year of course -- economy more motivated workers smaller more work force yeah. They're going to be glued to their jobs.

However -- I'm ready Barack March Madness right around the corner and Xavier is one school looking to go deep in the tournament. Please be joined by musketeers Coach

For the tax and in the end and this tournament and and March Madness so I mean I'm we're definitely going to be focused business in. Rather be focused right from here on out I mean