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Why is college basketball so popular? (alien.top)
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I had no idea just how popular college basketball is. For example, the subreddit has 2.2M subscribers. Although here it has 8.5M, it's really absurd how popular college basketball is. What's so special about it compared to NBA? I mean only Americans can really watch it. While in the NBA, it's more global. I've even heard that the revenue generated for unpaid college basketball players is extremely high, some even higher than certain NBA franchises.

Why is college basketball so popular? What makes this so special if those players are not proven to be in the NBA yet? On the other hand, college baseball isn't really popular compared to MLB itself.

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[–] Prior-Gear6374@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure if you realize this, but people often take a lot of pride in where they went to college. A way to show that pride and continue the connection once you've moved on in life is to follow athletics.

Also I like that you conveniently forget there is literally a whole month of the year where the media talks nonstop about college bball. Hell, even US Presidents fill out brackets lol.

[–] spacefish420@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That is literally only a thing in the USA, anywhere else in the world people don’t think about their school at all after they’ve graduated. So if OP is not American it makes sense they wouldn’t understand it.

Also again, only US media talks about it. I’m Canadian and I’ve never seen anything in the media about March madness in Canada. Im living in Europe now, I don’t think anyone here even knows what March madness is.

And making a rough guess off OPs post history I am going to assume it’s likely they are not American.