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ESPN will provide hours of unmatched, multi-platform coverage surrounding Selection Sunday on March 16, including live reactions, analysis and interviews surrounding the men’s bracket and the exclusive reveal of the women’s field for their respective NCAA DI Basketball Championships.
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The SEC/ACC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Challenges return for the 2024 college basketball season after a successful inaugural showing last year. Matchups and dates for the 2024 Challenge have been determined and are highlighted by two NCAA Men’s Final Four teams in action (Alabama, NC State) and the past two NCAA Women’s Champions in South Carolina and LSU, joined by two additional Women’s Final Four teams from the past two seasons (NC State, Virginia Tech).
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The NC State men’s and women’s basketball teams are both headed to the Final Four to compete for a national championship and ACC Network will surround the historic occasion with expansive onsite studio coverage from both locations
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ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas met with media to preview the 2021-22 college basketball season. The 2021-22 season tips off Tuesday, Nov. 9, highlighted by the 11th annual State Farm Champions Classic on ESPN featuring No. 3 Kansas vs Michigan State (7 p.m.) and No. 9 Duke vs No. 10 Kentucky (9:30 p.m.) at Madison Square Garden.
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With the retirement announcement of legendary North Carolina men’s basketball coach Roy Williams, ACC Network (ACCN) will present All ACC: Roy Williams Retirement Special today at 4 p.m. ET.
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Film directed by Robert Abbott debuts April 12, with launch of direct-to-consumer streaming service ESPN+ will also be the exclusive home of the entire 30 for 30 library ESPN’s latest installment in the acclaimed 30 for 30 documentary series, “The Last Days of Knight,” will be the first film in the award-winning series to appear … Read More
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SEC Network concludes producing more than 370 regular-season games in the men’s and women’s basketball schedule with first, second, third and quarterfinal Southeastern Conference tournament games airing on the network, accompanied with a live SEC Now desk on-site throughout each. The 2017 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament also marks the end of SEC Inside’s basketball regular-season … Read More
ESPN Radio will tip off the 2016-17 men’s college basketball season with 12 games from early season events beginning with the Armed Forces Classic doubleheader in Honolulu on Friday, Nov. 11.
Additional Coverage on SEC Network, ESPN3 and ACC Network Extra ESPNU will air six episodes of College Basketball Live in October, covering the media days of six conferences—ACC, American, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and the SEC. Ahead of the 2016-2017 college basketball season, College Basketball Live will preview the upcoming season with Brendan Fitzgerald, … Read More
Duke vs. Wisconsin on CBS Delivers 17.1/27, Up 33%
2015 NCAA Tournament Across TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV Garners
Highest Overall Average Rating in 22 Years
NCAA March Madness Live Generates Record-Setting 3.4 Million Live Video Streams
for Championship Game
CBS Sports and Turner Sports’ exclusive coverage of last night’s NCAA Tournament Men’s National Championship between Duke and Wisconsin on CBS scored a 17.1/27 HH rating/share to deliver the highest overnight rating for the NCAA Men’s National Championship in the metered markets in 18 years (1997; 18.0/28, Arizona-Kentucky), based on Nielsen metered market ratings. The broadcast’s 17.1/27 is up 33% over last year (12.9/21; Connecticut-Kentucky) and peaked with a 20.1/34 from 11:00-11:30 PM, ET.
Overall, 2015 NCAA Tournament coverage across TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV averaged a 7.8/16 overnight rating/share, up 13% and is the best overnight rating in 22 years (7.9/17 in 1993).
Top five rated metered markets for last night’s game:
Additionally, NCAA March Madness Live garnered a record-setting 3.4 million live video streams for last night’s NCAA Championship game and nearly one million hours of live video consumed, also an all-time record. Last night’s live video streams are up 66%, with the live hours of consumption up 69% over last year. NCAA March Madness Live generated 80.7 million live video streams and 17.8 million hours of live video consumption during this year’s tournament, both all-time highs. This year’s live video streams are up 17%, with live hours of consumption netting a 19% increase.
The NCAA Tournament grossed a record 350 million total social impressions across Facebook and Twitter for a 45% increase over 2014.
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