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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 3.5-6.2016

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 5 and Sunday March 6, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year.

NBA

Saturday
1.42 rating ABC 8:30 pm HOU Rockets at CHI Bulls
Sunday
2.93 rating ABC 3:30 pm GS Warriors at LA Lakers

College Basketball

Saturday
0.73 rating CBS 12:00 pm North Carolina State at Notre Dame
1.14 rating CBS 2:00 pm LSU at Kentucky
0.70 rating CBS 4:00 pm Stanford at Arizona
0.44 rating FOX 12:00 pm Georgetown at Villanova
0.38 rating FOX 2:30 pm Creighton at Xavier
2.09 rating ESPN 6:30 pm North Carolina at Duke
1.24 rating ESPN 8:30 pm Louisville at Virginia
Sunday
0.96 rating CBS 12:00 pm SMU at Cincinnati
0.83 rating CBS 2:00 pm Missouri Valley Basketball Championship
1.32 rating CBS 4:30 pm Maryland at Indiana

Golf

PGA: WGC-Cadillac Championship (Doral — Miami, FL)
1.97 rating NBC 3:00 pm Saturday Third Round
2.98 rating NBC 2:00 pm Sunday Final Round

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Sunday
4.06 rating FOX 4:15 pm Kobalt 400 (Las Vegas, NV)

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Saturday
0.93 rating FS1 4:00 pm Boyd Gaming 300 (Las Vegas, NV)

INDYCAR
Returns Mar 13 with Firestone Grand Prix of St Petersburg

FORMULA ONE
Returns Mar 20 with Australian Grand Prix

Soccer

Premier League
Saturday
0.48 rating NBCSN 7:30 am Tottenham vs Arsenal
0.33 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Manchester City vs Aston Villa
0.18 rating USA 10:00 am Everton vs West Ham
0.34 rating NBCSN 12:30 pm Watford vs Leicester City
Sunday
0.35 rating NBCSN 8:30 am Crystal Palace vs Liverpool
0.48 rating NBCSN 11:00 am West Brom vs Manchester United

Bundesliga
Saturday
n/a rating FS1 9:30 am Augsburg vs Bayer Leverkusen
Sunday
n/a rating FS1 9:30 am Mainz vs Darmstadt 98
n/a rating FS1 11:30 am Hamburg vs Hertha Berlin

NHL

Sunday
0.27 rating NBCSN 8:00 pm STL Blues at MIN Wild

Other

Sunday
0.57 rating NBC 1:00 pm USA Rugby

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.