The second ever all-top seed males’s Remaining 4 delivered two tight video games — and two huge TV audiences — on Saturday.
Quick nationwide rankings from Nielsen have the 2 video games averaging about 15.3 million viewers, one of the best mark for the boys’s Remaining 4 since 2017 (with the caveat that Nielsen didn’t embrace out of dwelling viewing in its measurement till three years after that). That’s up 19 p.c from a 12 months in the past (about 12.8 million viewers) on TBS, TNT and TruTV, and 24 p.c above CBS’ final time exhibiting the Remaining 4 in 2023.
The early recreation, a 79-73 win for Florida over Auburn, drew 14.6 million viewers, up from 11.4 million for a similar window a 12 months in the past. Houston’s 70-67 comeback victory over Duke within the late recreation averaged 16 million viewers, a 13 p.c achieve on the late window in 2024. CBS’ protection peaked at 20.4 million viewers.
The Houston-Duke recreation was essentially the most watched of the 2025 match up to now and likewise surpassed each recreation within the 2024 bracket. Remaining numbers for Saturday’s video games can be obtainable Tuesday, and it’s probably that they’ll alter up a bit from the quick nationwide numbers.
The ladies’s Remaining 4 on Friday fell by a considerable quantity, as anticipated after final 12 months’s record-setting viewership. The 2 video games — each pretty lopsided wins by defending champ South Carolina (over Texas) and Connecticut (over UCLA) — averaged 3.9 million viewers on ESPN within the quick nationals, down 65 p.c from 11 million final 12 months. Nonetheless, it was the third highest common viewers for the ladies’s Remaining 4 since ESPN gained unique rights to the ladies’s model of March Insanity in 1995, behind solely final 12 months and 2023 (4.5 million viewers).