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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 3.28-29.2015

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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 March 28 and Sunday March 29, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.

College Basketball

NCAA Basketball Championship: Elite Eight Round

Saturday
5.69 rating TBS 6:00 pm #1-Wisconsin vs #2-Arizona
8.99 rating TBS 8:30 pm #1-Kentucky vs #3-Notre Dame

Sunday
7.61 rating CBS 2:00 pm #4-Louisville vs #7-Michigan State
9.93 rating CBS 5:00 pm #1-Duke vs #2-Gonzaga

NCAA Division II Basketball Championship
0.94 rating CBS 3:00 pm Saturday

NBA

Sunday
1.36 rating ABC 12:30 pm HOU Rockets at WAS Wizards

Auto Racing

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Saturday
returns Apr 10

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Sunday
2.48 rating FS1 1:00 pm STP 500 (Martinsville VA)

INDYCAR
0.79 rating ABC 3:00 pm Sunday Firestone Grand Prix (St Petersburg FL)

FORMULA ONE
0.26 rating NBCSN 2:30 am Sunday Grand Prix of Malaysia

Golf

PGA: Valero Texas Open (TPC San Antonio)
1.62 rating NBC 3:00 pm Saturday Third Round
1.53 rating NBC 3:00 pm Sunday Final Round

Soccer

Premier League

n/a

NHL

Sunday
0.20 rating NBCSN 7:30 pm SJ Sharks at PIT Penguins

Other

Figure Skating
1.66 rating NBC 8:00 pm Saturday World Championships

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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.