Michigan's Title Win Draws Record NCAA Final Viewers

0:00It's April 8th, entertainment and celebrity news. Today starts now, AI-powered and trending. Michigan's men's basketball team just snagged their first title since 1989, beating Connecticut 69 to 63, and it. Pulled in 18.3 million viewers on average across TBS, TNT, True TV, and HBO Max. That's the biggest audience for an NCAA final since 2019, when Virginia-Edge Texas Tech in overtime. The numbers peaked at 20.4 million right at the end between 11 and 11.15 pm. Eastern time. We're talking a 23% jump from last year's final on TNT, which was only their fifth time handling the championship games since CBS, and TNT started splitting final four duties back in 2016. Fans showed up huge for this March-Manus run, with the whole tournament averaging 10.9 million viewers over CBS, TNT, and True TV. That's the second highest since 1994,

1:01when it all aired on CBS alone, and 7% more than last year. The final four itself averaged 14.2 million, up 11% from 2024, while the first and second rounds were the most watched since 1993. Basketball fever is still running hot, proving college troops knows how to pack the screens year after year.