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Abilene Christian Estimates Men's Tournament Run Worth $120 Million

Abilene Christian president Dr. Phil Schubert estimates the school's improbable NCAA men's basketball tournament victory netted them well over $100 million.

"So far we are close to $120 million plus and we really haven’t had time to tally up the totals,” Schubert said in a phone interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram before his school played UCLA on Monday.

ACU is a small private school in west Texas that joined Division I basketball in 2013 after a long history of competing at the Division II level. They entered the tourney as a massive underdog in the first round and were matched up against No.