Monday’s NCAA Women’s Basketball Selection Special Most-Viewed Since 2011

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Monday’s NCAA Women’s Basketball Selection Special Most-Viewed Since 2011

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ESPN’s exclusive coverage of the one-hour NCAA Women’s Basketball Selection Special Presented by Capital One on Monday, March 16, at 7 p.m. ET averaged 906,000 viewers, based on a 0.6 HH US rating, the most-viewed women’s selection show since 2011. This season’s program posted viewership and ratings increases of   39 percent (vs. 652,000 viewers) and 20 percent (vs. 0.5), respectively, over last year.

Top Two Markets Features Showdown between Connecticut and Tennessee Home Bases
The home markets for Connecticut and Tennessee led all markets for the Selection Special with Hartford-New Haven (a 4.4 metered market rating) taking the top spot and Knoxville (a 2.2 rating) finishing second. Memphis (1.5) finished in third followed by West Palm Beach (1.3) Cincinnati (1.2) and Columbus (1.1). Baltimore, San Diego, Albuquerque, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Washington D.C., San Antonio and Norfolk are tied with a 1.0 rating.

The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship Presented by Capital One will be shown in its entirety across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, WatchESPN and ESPN FULL COURT beginning with first-round action on Friday, March 20. Play culminates with the NCAA Women’s National Championship game on Tuesday, April 7, at 8:30 p.m. ET on ESPN from Tampa Bay, Fla.

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Photo of Rachel Margolis Siegal Rachel Margolis Siegal Follow on Twitter March 17, 2015
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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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