College Basketball Crown scores big with viewers as Nebraska wins 1st tournament

The Nebraska Cornhuskers took location the rubric successful the College Basketball Crown connected Sunday nighttime and FOX Sports said Tuesday the tourney scored large with viewers.

The Crown’s last betwixt Nebraska and UCF garnered 822,000 viewers and was the most-watched non-NCAA Tournament assemblage hoops last of the year, according to FOX Sports. Viewership was up 62% versus the NIT championship.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

College Basketball Crown MVP Juwan Gary of the Nebraska Cornhuskers laughs aft his team's 77-66 triumph against the UCF Knights successful the College Basketball Crown tourney astatine T-Mobile Arena connected April 6, 2025, successful Las Vegas. (Ian Maule/Getty Images)

Nebraska defeated UCF, 77-66. The Cornhuskers claimed $300,000 successful name, representation and likeness wealth for its programme arsenic well. It was Nebraska’s archetypal postseason title since the squad won the NIT successful 1996.

"We didn't get the extremity that we wanted for playing successful the NCAA Tournament," Nebraska manager Fred Hoiberg said aft the game. "But we made the astir of it and came retired present focused and stayed unneurotic arsenic a radical and played immoderate beauteous darn bully hoops this week.

'SOMETHING THAT WILL BE IN MY HEART': HUSKERS CHERISH INAUGURAL CROWN TITLE

Nebraska's Juwan Gary drives against successful the College Basketball Crown tourney connected April 6, 2025, successful Las Vegas. (Louis Grasse/Getty Images)

"Hopefully it volition springiness america immoderate momentum heading into adjacent season, and I deliberation the acquisition of playing successful a postseason lawsuit volition assistance everybody that volition beryllium backmost connected our roster adjacent year."

Nebraska defeated Boise State and UCF topped Villanova successful the Crown’s semifinals.

FOX Sports said the semifinals drew successful an mean of 706,000 viewers, which was up 145% implicit the NIT’s semifinals this year. It was the most-watched non-NCAA Tournament postseason semifinals of the year.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Nebraska received the archetypal wearable trophy of its kind.

Follow Fox News Digital’s sports sum connected X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.