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UMass’s win also a ratings success for ESPN

The broadcast of the Minutemen’s first men’s hockey national championship earned a 2.3 rating in the Boston market.

UMass won the national championship. Gregory Shamus/Getty Images

By Chad Finn

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Boston was the top-rated market for ESPN’s broadcast of the University of Massachusetts’s 5-0 victory over St. Cloud State in the men’s ice hockey championship game Saturday night.

The broadcast of the Minutemen’s first men’s hockey national championship earned a 2.3 rating in the Boston market. Minneapolis-St. Paul (1.8) was second, and Providence (1.3) third among major markets.

The championship game, which aired on ESPN, averaged 435,000 viewers and was up 33 percent from the 2019 final, which aired on ESPNU. There was no tournament in 2020.

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Chad Finn

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Chad Finn is a sports columnist for Boston.com. He has been voted Favorite Sports Writer in Boston in the annual Channel Media Market and Research Poll for the past four years. He also writes a weekly sports media column for the Globe and contributes to Globe Magazine.

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