Overtime Drama Fails to Lift CBS’s Ratings: NCAA Number of Day

Braxton Key of the Virginia Cavaliers cuts the net down after his teams 85-77 win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders in the 2019 NCAA men's Final Four National Championship game in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 8, 2019. — Braxton Key of the Virginia Cavaliers cuts the net down after his teams 85-77 win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders in the 2019 NCAA men's Final Four National Championship game in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 8, 2019.
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By Eben Novy-Williams

April 9, 2019 at 11:57 AM EDT

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14 percent.

That’s how much CBS’s ratings for the NCAA Tournament championship game declined from two years ago, the last time the network aired the final.

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