Sunday’s Big Ten Tournament championship between Illinois and Ohio State was the most-watched college basketball game of the 2020-21 season, CBS Sports announced on Tuesday morning. The game, which the Fighting Illini won in overtime 91-88, saw an average of 3.678 million viewers and peaked at 5.783 million viewers from 6 to 6:09 p.m., though that had more to do with the fact that CBS’s Selection Sunday programming was set to begin at that time. The Buckeyes were also part of the most-watched regular season game of the year, though it was also in defeat, as an average of 2.63 million viewers tuned in for Michigan’s 92-87 win in Columbus on Feb. 21. According to the release, the top six most-watched college basketball games this season aired on CBS, which – along with affiliate stations TBS, TNT and TruTV – is home to the NCAA Tournament. The first and second…
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