Telecasts · College Basketball

CBB Volunteers–Wildcats

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

2019-02-16 · College Basketball · ESPN

3,010,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2019-02-20

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast / TV only · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Last Saturday's Tennessee-Kentucky men's college basketball game scored a 1.75 rating and 3.01 million viewers on ESPN, up 161% in ratings and 150% in viewership from last year (UNC-Louisville: 0.7, 1.20M) and up 79% and 85% respectively from 2017 (UVA-UNC: 1.0, 1.63M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

3,010,000

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

On the record

NetworksESPN

TeamsKentucky · Tennessee

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

CBB Mountaineers–Jayhawks

2018-02-17 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

1,600,000

CBB Tar Heels–Cardinals

2018-02-17 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

1,200,000

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 Volunteers–Wildcats (2019-02-16): 3,010,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2019-02-20, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2019/02/kentucky-ratings-espn-college-basketball/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/cbb-kentucky-tennessee-2019-02-16, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950