Tag: NCAA Basketball

"Their addition is a huge win for our community, adding major benefits to our membership and the overall network experience"

“This extension is a powerful endorsement of our vision, delivering cutting-edge data solutions to support NCAA schools while connecting our sportsbook partners with the highest quality NCAA official content."

As a whole, the National Championship Game was up 22% and represents the most-watched iteration of the event since 2019.

Viewership for the UConn-South Carolina game, which ended in a victory for Paige Bueckers and the Huskies, peaked with 9.8 million viewers.

The 11-point comeback by Houston to eliminate Duke later in the day contributed to an average of 16 million viewers, indicative of the most-watched game of this year’s tournament thus far.

"We are really unique in that our audiences are young, they’re consuming on different platforms and the investment from a company like ESPN, which has been around for 20 years investing in this space, is paying those dividends now."

"I’m thankful to TNT Sports for the opportunity to continue this journey together and look forward to what promises to be a fantastic Final Four weekend, among many more to come."

Through the regional semifinals round of the tournament, ESPN is averaging 967,000 viewers for its game presentations.

"We know what he would want to see, we know how he would want us to do the job, and that’s what we do."

"They banded together to keep the evil empire from taking the tournament, and TNT took the lion’s share of the money too and got a final."