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March 28, 2016
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 3.27.2016

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 26 and Sunday March 27, 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

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College Basketball

NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: Regional Finals (Elite Eight)
Saturday
5.14 rating CBS 6:00 pm #2-Oklahoma def #1-Oregon 80-68
7.37 rating CBS 8:30 pm #2-Villanova def #1-Kansas 64-59

Sunday
4.86 rating TBS 6:00 pm #10-Syracuse def #1-Virginia 68-62
6.61 rating TBS 8:30 pm #1-North Carolina def #6-Notre Dame 88-74

Golf

PGA: WGC-Dell Match Play (Austin, TX)
1.69 rating NBC 2:00 pm Saturday Quarterfinals
2.18 rating NBC 3:00 pm Sunday Finals

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Sunday
Returns April 3 from Martinsville

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Saturday
Returns April 8 from Texas

INDYCAR
Sunday
Returns April 2 with Phoenix Grand Prix

FORMULA ONE
Sunday
Returns April 3 with Grand Prix of Bahrain

Soccer

Premier League
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Bundesliga
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NHL

Sunday
0.55 rating NBCSN 7:30 pm PIT Penguins at NY Rangers

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.