TV Ratings: Men’s NCAA Final Four Scores Eight-Year Highs for CBS

TV Ratings: Men’s NCAA Final Four Scores Eight-Year Highs for CBS

The second ever all-top seed men’s Final Four delivered two tight games — and two big TV audiences — on Saturday.

Fast national ratings from Nielsen have the two games averaging about 15.3 million viewers, the best mark for the men’s Final Four since 2017 (with the caveat that Nielsen didn’t include out of home viewing in its measurement until three years after that). That’s up 19 percent from a year ago (about 12.8 million viewers) on TBS, TNT and TruTV, and 24 percent…