Tuesday's UConn/Florida State game drew the second highest rating for a regular season or conference tournament on one of the ESPN network stations in the last six years.

Here's the release from ESPN:


The top-ranked Connecticut women’s basketball team’s 93-62 win over No. 20 Florida State last night, which gave the Huskies their 89th-straight win surpassing John Wooden and UCLA’s Division I basketball record 88-game win streak, earned a 0.9 rating, representing an average of 878,00 households and 1,171,000 viewers, according to Nielsen. It's the second-highest rating for a regular-season or conference tournament women's basketball game on the ESPN networks in the last six seasons (2009 Tennessee/Oklahoma garnered a 1.0, a game where Pat Summitt was attempting to her 1,000th win).

The Hartford designated market area (DMA) recorded an 18.1 metered market rating – the highest women’s basketball rating on ESPN or ESPN2 in Hartford during the regular-season and conference tournaments since March 2003 (BIG EAST Championship final – when Villanova broke UConn’s then-record 70-game women’s basketball win streak). That game received an 19.7 rating on ESPN2. The 18.1 rating also topped last year’s Final Four contest between Connecticut and Stanford, which earned a 17.6. Connecticut has been on ESPN or ESPN2 39 times since the 2003 UConn/Villanova matchup.