North Carolina Tar Heels at Duke Blue Devils
Nielsen average audience: 3,430,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.
- Aired
- 2026-03-07 Saturday
- Networks
- ESPN
- Away
- Duke
- Home
- North Carolina
3,430,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
multiple sources · 2 sources · final
figures last changed 2026-03-14
Published figures
JSONNielsen2 figures
3,430,000
Saturday's North Carolina-Duke men's college basketball game averaged 3.43 million viewersSports Media Watch, verbatim
3,107,000
North Carolina/Duke,Saturday,6:30PM,ESPN,3107,3426Manny Soloway, verbatim
2 press attributions · no provider-published figure · multiple sources
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
Prior-season windows
2025-03-15 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
2,620,000
2025-03-15 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
2,240,000
2025-03-15 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
2,400,000
2025-03-15 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
3,070,000
4 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.
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on ESPN, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.
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