STORRS, CT — The University of Connecticut's 100th straight win on Monday was the most viewed basketball game this year on ESPN2 — men or women — UConn Athletics officials said.
Top-ranked UConn’s 66-55 victory over No. 6 South Carolina delivered a 0.9 overnight rating, marking the highest-rated college basketball game on ESPN2 this season among men’s and women’s telecasts, and the highest-rated women’s college basketball regular season game since 2010, ESPN officials said.
Online, the game also attracted 69,000 unique viewers with a total of 1,700,000 minutes watched, which makes the matchup the most streamed women’s college basketball regular-season game to date televised by ESPN, network officials said.
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The BigMonday matchup tied Tennessee vs. Duke (Jan. 23, 2006) as the fourth-highest regular-season women’s college basketball game across all ESPN networks, officials said.
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In terms of local markets: Hartford/New Haven, the No. 1 local market, earned a 14.3 local rating, making this the highest-rated women’s college basketball game in market across all ESPN networks since 2010, officials said.
Greenville was second with 2.3 rating, followed by Knoxville (2.0), Charlotte (1.7) and Cincinnati (1.6), officials said.
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