College sports coverage proved to be both a winner and loser for CBS last night. Although the NCAA tournament didn’t earn the network another double win last night, the court action did score a tie in the demos with ABC. (The Alphabet was the sole winner with the viewers.)

8pm

• Bones (10.2 million, 3.0/9 in 18-49) raised 600,000.
• CBS’ NCAA basketball coverage (3.5/10) scored 9.4 million.
• Ugly Betty (7.6 million, 2.1/6) picked up 400,000.
• My Name is Earl (6.4 million, 2.4/8) improved by 2 million; a repeat of The Office (4.6 million, 2.0/6) did better than the Kath finale.
• Smallville (3.3 million. 1.4/4) lost 400,000.

9pm

• Grey’s Anatomy (14 million, 4.9/12 in 18-49) had the night’s best numbers.
• The Office (8 million, 3.9/10) added on 500,000.
• Hell’s Kitchen (7.6 million, 3.3/8) discarded 200,000.
• 30 Rock (7 million, 3.2/8) grew by 600,000.
• Supernatural (3.1 million, 1.2/3) rounded up 300,000 more.

10pm

• Private Practice (10 million, 3.6/10 in 18-49) treated another 900,000.
• ER (9.5 million, 3.3/9) gave up 1.2 million.

*denotes repeat

(You can review last Thurday’s ratings here.)