1986 NCAA championship game - Duke vs Louisville
Nielsen average audience: 28,710,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.
- Aired
- 1986-03-31 Monday
- Networks
- CBS
- Teams
- Duke · Louisville
28,710,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2026-08-27
Published figures
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28,710,000
28.710MSports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
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