Ratings Up for NCAA Women’s Basketball National Semifinals

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Ratings Up for NCAA Women’s Basketball National Semifinals

Photo of Rachel Margolis Siegal Rachel Margolis Siegal Follow on Twitter April 3, 2012

Each of ESPN’s NCAA Women’s Basketball National Semifinals on Sunday, April 1, attracted a larger audience than last year, with the doubleheader combining for an increased rating of nine percent (2.3 in 2012 vs. 2.1 in 2011).  Also, the first game was the highest-rated semifinal game in that telecast window since Stanford vs. Connecticut on April 6, 2008 (2.1).

Notre Dame’s 83-75 victory over Connecticut delivered a 2.1 household coverage rating, up 11 percent from last year’s first semifinal tilt between eventual national champion Texas A&M and Stanford (1.9).  The second National Semifinal game that saw Baylor top Stanford 59-47 registered a 2.6 national rating, which is up eight percent over last year’s UConn-Notre Dame semifinal (2.4) and the viewership was 3,756,000.

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Photo of Rachel Margolis Siegal Rachel Margolis Siegal Follow on Twitter April 3, 2012
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Rachel Margolis Siegal

A part of the Internal Communications team at ESPN, I began with the network in 2010 as part of the College Sports PR team. Always an avid sports fan and not an athlete – I grew up a huge fan of the Hartford Whalers, while also watching my brother compete at different levels. I became the manager of several high school sports teams and continued that hobby into college. While at Quinnipiac, I worked in the Sports Information Department, which led me to a summer internship at the New Haven Ravens, a AA baseball team, and an eventual job with the Athletic Communications Department at the University of Connecticut. After my five-year stint at Connecticut, I spent six years as Director of Communications at the BIG EAST Conference in Providence, R.I. before joining ESPN.
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