Telecasts · College Basketball

CBB Blue Devils–Wildcats

Name: CBB Blue Devils–Wildcats
Creator: RatingsReference
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2018-11-06 · College Basketball · ESPN

2,850,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2018-11-08

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Duke-Kentucky earned 2.85 million viewers in the back half of Tuesday's Champions Classic college basketball doubleheader, up 7% from last year (Kentucky-Kansas: 2.66M) and up 21% from 2016 (Kansas-Duke: 2.36M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

2,850,000

1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

On the record

NetworksESPN

TeamsDuke · Kentucky

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

CBB Blue Devils–Spartans

2017-11-14 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

3,000,000

CBB Wildcats–Jayhawks

2017-11-14 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

2,700,000

2 windows sit the same distance from 52 weeks earlier; the site does not pick one, so no percent is computed.
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on ESPN, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Cite this figure

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CBB Blue Devils–Wildcats (2018-11-06): 2,850,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2018-11-08, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/11/duke-kentucky-ratings-champions-classic/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/cbb-duke-kentucky-2018-11-06, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950