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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 2.27-28.2016

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday February 27 and Sunday February 28, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year.

NBA

Saturday
3.89 rating ABC 8:30 pm GS Warriors at OKC Thunder

College Basketball

Saturday
0.79 rating CBS 12:00 pm Butler at Georgetown
1.02 rating CBS 2:00 pm Oklahoma at Texas
1.31 rating CBS 4:00 pm Kentucky at Vanderbilt
0.46 rating FOX 2:00 pm Villanova at Marquette
0.41 rating FOX 4:30 pm UCLA at Stanford
Sunday
1.25 rating CBS 2:00 pm Duke at Pittsburgh
1.51 rating CBS 4:00 pm Iowa at Ohio State

Golf

PGA: Honda Classic (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)
1.68 rating NBC 3:00 pm Saturday Third Round
2.60 rating NBC 3:00 pm Sunday Final Round

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
3.75 rating FOX 1:15 pm Sunday Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (Atlanta, GA)

NASCAR Xfinity Series
0.91 rating FS1 1:30 pm Saturday Heads Up Atlanta 250 (Atlanta, GA)

INDYCAR
Returns Mar 13 with Firestone Grand Prix of St Petersburg

FORMULA ONE
Returns Mar 20 with Australian Grand Prix

Soccer

Premier League
Saturday
0.25 rating NBCSN 7:30 am West Ham vs Sunderland
0.37 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Leicester City vs Norwich City
0.49 rating NBC 12:30 pm West Brom vs Crystal Palace
Sunday
0.60 rating NBCSN 9:00 am Manchester United vs Arsenal

NHL

Saturday
1.04 rating NBC 8:00 pm DET Red Wings at COL Avalanche
Sunday
1.01 rating NBC 12:30 pm WAS Capitals at CHI Blackhawks
0.38 rating NBCSN 6:30 pm TB Lightning at BOS Bruins
0.27 rating NBCSN 9:00 pm LA Kings at ANA Ducks

Other

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.