{"id":706854,"date":"2026-04-09T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706854\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:30:16","slug":"big-ten-leads-ncaa-payouts-for-basketball-tournaments-at-nearly-70m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706854\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten leads NCAA payouts for basketball tournaments at nearly $70M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">The Big Ten amassed nearly $70M from NCAA distributions for team appearances and performances in the 2026 men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball tournaments, which is \u201cby far the most among conferences.\u201d Nine men\u2019s teams and 12 women\u2019s teams from the Big Ten combined to make at least $69.4M, with $63M \u201ccoming from the men\u2019s side.\u201d Michigan earned $14.7M for the conference by playing in six games and receiving a seventh unit for winning the men\u2019s tournament championship. UCLA earned just over $1.4M by playing in six games and receiving an extra unit for winning the women\u2019s tournament championship. The SEC, which had 10 teams in each tournament, totaled at least $56.2M. Distributions will total at least $42.9M for the Big 12, $34.2M for the ACC and $22.2M for the Big East (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ncaa-basketball-revenue-3ba87a900d29fb78b977fe67c84d81b3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ncaa-basketball-revenue-3ba87a900d29fb78b977fe67c84d81b3\">AP, 4\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/07\/with-michigans-win-big-ten-holds-the-cards-to-college-sports-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/07\/with-michigans-win-big-ten-holds-the-cards-to-college-sports-future\/\">RELATED: With Michigan\u2019s win, Big Ten holds the cards to college sports\u2019 future<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Big Ten amassed nearly $70M from NCAA distributions for team appearances and performances in the 2026 men\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,465],"class_list":{"0":"post-706854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab","13":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116376647999980805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}