Monday’s UConn-San Diego State NCAA men’s basketball national championship averaged a 7.8 rating and 14.69 million viewers on CBS, down 15% in ratings and 14% in viewership from Kansas-North Carolina on TBS, TNT and TruTV last year (9.1, 17.05M) and the lowest rated and least-watched title game on record. 

It was still the most-watched basketball game over the past year, beating Game 6 of the 2022 NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics which had 14.0 million viewers. 

The women's championship on Sunday between LSU and Iowa is the 12th highest rated basketball game of the past year at 9.9 million viewers.