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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 3.7-8.2015

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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 7 and Sunday March 8, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.

College Basketball

Saturday
0.90 rating CBS 12:00 pm Syracuse at North Carolina State
1.83 rating CBS 2:00 pm Florida at #1-Kentucky
1.00 rating CBS 4:00 pm Stanford at #5-Arizona
0.42 rating FOX 12:00 pm Seton Hall at Georgetown
0.44 rating FOX 2:00 pm St John’s at #4-Villanova
0.89 rating ESPN 12:00 pm Michigan State at Indiana
0.48 rating ESPN 2:00 pm LSU at #18-Arkansas
0.90 rating ESPN 4:00 pm #9-Kansas at #15-Oklahoma
1.49 rating ESPN 6:30 pm #2-Virginia at #16-Louisville
2.57 rating ESPN 9:00 pm #3-Duke at #19-North Carolina

Sunday
0.85 rating CBS 12:00 pm Memphis at Cincinnati
0.85 rating CBS 2:00 pm Missouri Valley Championship Illinois State vs Northern Iowa
1.40 rating CBS 4:30 pm #6-Wisconsin at #23-Ohio State

NBA

Sunday
1.93 rating ABC 1:00 pm CHI Bulls at SA Spurs
2.29 rating ABC 3:30 pm LA Clippers at GS Warriors

Auto Racing

NASCAR Xfinity Series
1.08 rating FS1 4:00 pm Saturday Boyd Gaming 300 (Las Vegas)

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Sunday
4.25 rating FOX 3:45 pm Kobalt 400 (Las Vegas)

Golf

PGA: WGC-Cadillac Open (Trump National Doral Miami, FL)
1.73 rating NBC 3:00 pm Saturday Third Round
2.59 rating NBC 3:00 pm Sunday Final Round

Soccer

Premier League

Saturday
0.39 rating NBCSN 10:00 am QPR vs Tottenham

Sunday
n/a

NHL

Sunday
0.96 rating NBC 12:00 pm DET Red Wings at BOS Bruins
0.60 rating NBCSN 7:30 pm NY Rangers at CHI Blackhawks

Other

Boxing
2.53 rating NBC 8:30 pm Saturday Premier Boxing Champions Thurman-Guerrero (welterweight)

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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.