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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4626780, member: 153"] If you looked inside the numbers, you'd see that the audience fell off when UConn got a 20 point lead. Then there's the other half of the equation. You have to play an opponent people want to see. This game was as big a foregone conclusion as 2004. No one gave SDSU a chance. A tight game between UConn and, say, Miami would've had much higher ratings. Consider that the Georgia vs. TCU national championship (a blowout) had lower ratings than any NCAA men's title game in recorded history, until UConn - SDSU. Until last week, the 2nd lowest rated game in NCAA men's championship history was last year's Kansas vs. North Carolina, which only had 2m more viewers than UConn-SDSU this year. So much for blue bloods. They were tied with the 2021 championship for low viewers. In fact, every year since 2018 they've gone lower than all previous years (2019 excepted). Last fact, streaming on the March Madness app was up 20%+ over last year. Nielsen can't account for all the people watching on Apps. [/QUOTE]