Arizona's Allonzo Trier holds up the trophy for most outstanding player of the tournament after Arizona defeated Oregon in an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Pac-12 Tournament on Saturday, March 11, 2017, in Las Vegas. Arizona won 83-80. (AP Photo/John Locher)

 John Locher

The Arizona-Oregon championship game in Las Vegas drew 2,079,000 viewers on ESPN. And Friday’s Arizona-UCLA game had an ESPN audience of 1,625,000. Both totals were below the Arizona-UCLA February game at McKale Center, which drew 2.2 million, the highest audience of the year for a Pac-12 cable broadcast. How does that compare nationally? The Duke-North Carolina game in the ACC Tournament drew 3,597,000.

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