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Big 10 Basketball 2009-2010

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NCAA Tournament: It's about money, too
Friday, March 26, 2010
By Bill Rabinowitz
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Paydays for the Big Ten
* $242,729: Amount each Big Ten school will receive in each of the next six years based on the conference's performance in the 2010 men's NCAA Tournament so far
* $1,395,692: Amount each Big Ten school will receive this year based on the conference's performance in the past six tournaments
* $1,863,000: Approximate amount each Big Ten school received based on the conference's appearances in football bowl games this past season
* $0: The amount of extra cash the NCAA champion receives
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The Ohio State men's basketball team is playing for more than glory these days.

The Buckeyes also are competing for financial gain - theirs and their Big Ten brethren's.

For each victory they and fellow Big Ten teams accrue in the NCAA Tournament, they will earn an additional $20,227 for each of the next six years.

That's based on a formula that this year awards a conference $222,502 for each team it has in the tournament and the same amount for every victory its teams earn through the national semifinal round. There's no additional benefit for winning the national championship.

The Big Ten divides its proceeds evenly among its 11 members.

"At this time of year, we're all rooting for the other teams in our conference," said Ben Jay, OSU's senior associate athletic director for finance and operations.

Already this March, the Big Ten has accumulated 12 units, as they are called. Minnesota got one for making the field. Wisconsin earned two for winning its first-round game. Ohio State, Michigan State and Purdue have earned three apiece for reaching the regional semifinals.

"We want Michigan State and Purdue to be successful because they add to our bottom line," Jay said. "That's important because we need this as a revenue source."

This year, the Big Ten will be paid based on the 69 units earned the previous six years, which will be worth $15,352,609. Ohio State's share will be $1,395,692. This year's Big Ten performance will be factored in the unit count for the next six years.
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NCAA Tournament: It's about money, too | BuckeyeXtra
 
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And Look who Iowa hired:

Source: Iowa Hawkeyes hire Siena Saints' Fran McCaffery as coach - ESPN

Iowa has hired Siena coach Fran McCaffery to the same position, a source close to the situation confirmed to ESPN's Doug Gottlieb on Sunday.
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McCaffery
Iowa was expected to announce the move Monday in Iowa City, Iowa.
McCaffery, 50, will replace Todd Lickliter, who was fired two weeks ago after the Hawkeyes' third losing season in a row.
McCaffery, a fifth-year coach for Siena who is a former assistant coach at Notre Dame under Digger Phelps, has taken the Saints to three straight NCAA tournaments, including two upsets in the first round.
Siena finished this season 27-7, 17-1 in the MAAC, after the No. 13-seeded Saints fell to No. 4-seeded Purdue in the first round of the NCAA tournament, 72-64.
McCaffery coached Lehigh for three seasons and UNC-Greensboro for six before taking the Siena job.
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Good for Iowa and good for the Big Ten. The conference right now is incredibly strong as far as head coaches go from top to bottom. DeChellis is the only weak link in the entire conference and he's not horrible as a coach, he just struggles to recruit enough good players. Nevermind, forgot about Belien, only two out of 11 still isn't bad. It's no wonder the Big Ten does so well in the tournament every year, the quality of coaches helps prepare these teams as well or better than any other in the country.
 
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LitlBuck;1682614; said:
nice find and a good hire by Iowa but I thought the same thing about TL . It was a good coach but maybe he was too much of a disciplinarian for the people in Iowa.
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Say what? Lickliter's disciplinary tendencies had nothing to do with his firing. The fact that his 3-year conference record was 15-39, finishing no higher than 8th in the league, was all the Hawkeyes needed to know about him.
 
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MaxBuck;1682918; said:
Say what? Lickliter's disciplinary tendencies had nothing to do with his firing. The fact that his 3-year conference record was 15-39, finishing no higher than 8th in the league, was all the Hawkeyes needed to know about him.
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Well, when you don't have certain players it certainly does her chair won and lost record but that's just my opinion which you always seem to disagree with:(
 
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Iowa fans think the handling of Anthony Tucker played a part in Lickliter's firing. Tucker was kind of left in the lurch by Lickliter after his latest incident with alcohol - the punishment seemed to have gone beyond what it was expected to be because there was a time this year when Tucker was back on the team after his latest incident where he had been suspended & supposedly was allowed to play, but Lickliter still didn't play him, begging the question of whether he was still being punished. Shortly after being brought back on the team, Tucker asked for a release from his scholarship. Why keep punishing a guy after he has served his suspension? That was a sticking point for some Iowa fans and players. Rumor has it that Matt Gatens would've transferred if Lickliter was retained & part of it was because he was upset with how Tucker was handled.

McCaffery will change the style of play at Iowa dramatically & he will probably be a lot more successful at retaining players - that was one of the big reasons why Lickliter could never build anything there and would never build anything there - he and the players would not see eye to eye long enough to stay together for 4 years. Every year there would be a key player or two transfer to another school (Tyler Smith in '07, Tony Freeman in '08, Jake Kelly and Jeff Peterson in '09). The hiring of McCaffery stops the bleeding for now, and he should get that program back to being much more competitive at least because it's doubtful that he'd lose starters to transfer year after year like Lickliter.

As for UM, there was another quote I found interesting, that Butler said when Beilein was the coach at WVU, it was like a "country club" compared to what it was like with Huggins.
 
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