Telecasts · College Basketball

Kansas State Wildcats at Kentucky Wildcats

Name: Kansas State Wildcats at Kentucky Wildcats
Creator: RatingsReference
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2018-03-22 · College Basketball · CBS

8,300,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2018-03-24

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Thursday's Kansas State-Kentucky NCAA Tournament regional semifinal had a 5.0 rating and 8.3 million viewers on CBS, up 22% in ratings and 25% in viewership from last year (Kansas-Purdue: 4.1, 6.6M), and up 18% and 22% respectively from 2016 (Maryland-Kansas: 4.2, 6.8M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

8,300,000

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

On the record

NetworksCBS

AwayKansas State

HomeKentucky

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

Purdue Boilermakers at Kansas Jayhawks

2017-03-23 · CBS · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

6,600,000

Michigan Wolverines at Oregon Ducks

2017-03-23 · CBS · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

7,100,000

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 CBS, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

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Kansas State Wildcats at Kentucky Wildcats (2018-03-22): 8,300,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2018-03-24, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/03/ncaa-tournament-sweet-sixteen-ratings-kentucky/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/cbb-kansas-state-kentucky-2018-03-22, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950