I'm not sure even Minnesota is an exception to this. Despite their football team generally being awful for the better part of...well, forever, they get 10x the exposure on Twin Cities sports talk radio and tv coverage than the men's hockey team does. And despite their men's basketball team generally being mediocre, they get 5x the aforementioned coverage than the men's hockey team does. There were times when the women's basketball team--Lindsay Whalen era, e.g.-- got as much local coverage as the men's hockey team.
And then there's all the pictures of empty Mariucci.