….Although much of the red-sweater crowd was glued to the TV during the Badgers’ thrilling, 2-1 win over Boston College in last Saturday’s NCAA Frozen Four title game, it’s somewhat surprising to learn how few nationally took the time to tune in.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the BC-UW game had a national television rating of just 0.5 – which means there were approximately 746,000 viewers.
Granted, three-quarters of a million people is nothing to sneeze at. But as a comparison, the April 3 NCAA men’s basketball final on CBS had an 8.2 rating – which translates to 13.1 million viewers.