(04-01-2019 10:13 PM)AZcats Wrote:  I would put the Frozen Four and D1 hockey title at or near the top. There may be only 60 men's hockey teams but unlike the FBS no teams are automatically eliminated before the season starts. There is more parity in men's hockey than most any other sport. This is why you see schools like recent champions Yale, Providence, and Union College (NY) win against P5 schools.

Completely agree.

The nice thing about the Frozen Four is that a small school can make it and WIN it. There's SOME of that in CBB, but Minnesota-Duluth, Denver, Quinnipiac, Harvard, etc, wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell in just about any other sport.

FBS Title- Obviously the biggest and most difficult to achieve since so many schools don't even have access to it.
Basketball-
Final Four
Baseball- Least exclusive and least exposure of the big 3 sports.
Sweet 16
CWS-
Hockey- Non existent in a lot of the country but I'd bet that where it's big it's bigger than FCS is anywhere since there's maybe a whole 2 states that care about FCS.
FCS

(04-02-2019 10:03 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  The nice thing about the Frozen Four is that a small school can make it and WIN it. There's SOME of that in CBB, but Minnesota-Duluth, Denver, Quinnipiac, Harvard, etc, wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell in just about any other sport.

Denver has won 33 NCAA titles - 24 in Skiing (most recent in 2018), 8 in Hockey (most recent 2017), and 1 in Men's lacrosse (2015). They were in the final four in men's soccer in 2016, and are currently top 5 in women's gymnastics and top 15 in W. lacrosse. W. Soccer has been to the Sweet 16 in recents years. Volleyball and Swimming are top 35, with mens basketball being the big exception. W basketball made it to the second round of the WNIT this year. In short, DU is very competitive nationally in most of the sports it plays.

(04-03-2019 07:10 PM)puck swami Wrote:  

(04-02-2019 10:03 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  The nice thing about the Frozen Four is that a small school can make it and WIN it. There's SOME of that in CBB, but Minnesota-Duluth, Denver, Quinnipiac, Harvard, etc, wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell in just about any other sport.

Denver has won 33 NCAA titles - 24 in Skiing (most recent in 2018), 8 in Hockey (most recent 2017), and 1 in Men's lacrosse (2015). They were in the final four in men's soccer in 2016, and are currently top 5 in women's gymnastics and top 15 in W. lacrosse. W. Soccer has been to the Sweet 16 in recents years. Volleyball and Swimming are top 35, with mens basketball being the big exception. W basketball made it to the second round of the WNIT this year. In short, DU is very competitive nationally in most of the sports it plays.

Apologies.

I was referring more to the "revenue" sports.

For most schools, that would be Football, Men's BB, Baseball, and Hockey. While Denver has been uber successful in Hockey, I don't think they'd havemuch of a chance if they played DI football for example.

I would put D1 lacrosse title on a par with the hockey title and D1 lacrosse title ahead of the Frozen Four only because of the exposure and atmosphere that weekend tends to create.

Kind of interesting that a lot of these rankings pretty closely match average revenue per sport.