No. 1 Kansas’ Triple Overtime Win over No. 2 Oklahoma Brings in Record Big 12 Rating

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No. 1 Kansas’ Triple Overtime Win over No. 2 Oklahoma Brings in Record Big 12 Rating

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Record Numbers on WatchESPN

ESPN’s Big Monday matchup – featuring top-ranked Kansas’ triple-overtime victory vs. No. 2 Oklahoma on January 5 – delivered a 1.9 overnight rating, making it the highest-rated Big Monday Big 12 game on ESPN (records date back to 2002). It is also ESPN’s second-highest rated Monday night men’s college basketball game on record behind the Pittsburgh vs. Connecticut game (2.0 HH / February 16, 2009).

The No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 2 Oklahoma matchup was the most viewed men’s college basketball game ever on WatchESPN in both unique visitors (295,000) and total minutes viewed (11.6 million), and the second highest in average minute audience (66,000) behind the Kentucky-Duke Champions Classic game from earlier this season (November 17, 2015).

Kansas City Market Collects Highest Overnight Rating
Kansas City gathered the highest-rated market for the Kansas-Oklahoma matchup, bringing in a 16.8 overnight rating, followed by Oklahoma City (10.7); Tulsa (8.6); Louisville (5.6); Raleigh-Durham (4.4); Las Vegas (3.9); Albuquerque (3.8); Greensboro (3.4); Dallas-Fort Worth (2.8) and Greenville (2.5).

2015-16 Storylines
The overnight rating was the second highest of the 2015-16 men’s college basketball season across all ESPN networks – trailing the high of 2.2 for the Kentucky vs. Duke tilt at the State Champions Classic from this season.

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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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