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Tape-Delayed Women's NCAA Hockey Final Had Higher TV Ratings Than Any Men's Tournament Game

Well, that's interesting.

So, here's something to chew on: this year's NCAA women's hockey final between Boston College and Minnesota, which aired one week late on tape delay Easter Sunday on CBS, drew 651,000 households. This is significantly more than any men's hockey tournament game drew over the same weekend, and also slightly more than the estimated U.S. viewership (635,000 households) of last year's BU-Providence men's national championship game on ESPN. I have not seen any sites that calculated out the number of viewers from the number of households, but a fair guess is somewhere in the neighborhood of a million viewers for each game.