Caitlin Clark, Iowa advance to Final Four in LSU rematch (3:02)
Scott Van Pelt wraps up Iowa’s 94-87 win over LSU, highlighted by an astonishing 41-point night from Caitlin Clark. (3:02)
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ESPN News Services
Apr 2, 2024, 06:46 PM ET
Caitlin Clark can declare another record– the most watched ladies’s college basketball video game in history.
Iowa’s 94-87 success over LSU in the Elite Eight of the females’s NCAA competition Monday night balanced 12.3 million audiences on ESPN, according to Nielsen. That makes it among the most-viewed video games in any sport aside from NFL football over the previous year.
Iowa-LSU outdrew all however among the 5 video games in 2015’s NBA Finals, in addition to the clinching video game of in 2015’s World Series (11.48 million).
Clark scored 41 points as the Hawkeyes avenged in 2015’s loss to the Tigers in the championship game video game.
The viewership went beyond the 11.84 million who saw the 1983 NCAA national championship in between Southern California and Louisiana Tech. LSU coach Kim Mulkey bet Louisiana Tech and was compared versus USC terrific Cheryl Miller because video game, which the Trojans won 64-58.
It was likewise the most seen males’s or females’s college basketball video game ever on ESPN, more than doubling the prior biggest audience.
According to ESPN, the 2002 ladies’s championship game video game in between UConn and Oklahoma had the old mark at 5.68 million. ESPN’s a lot of viewed guys’s video game was the 2008 regular-season match in between Duke and North Carolina, which drew 5.61 million.
Just one guys’s NCAA competition video game this year had larger viewership: North Carolina State’s win over Duke on Sunday in the males’s Elite Eight on CBS balanced 15.1 million.
According to Sports Media Watch, it was the most seen basketball video game on ESPN because Game 7 of the 2018 Eastern Conference finals, when the Cleveland Cavaliers’ success over the Boston Celtics balanced 13.6 million.
UConn’s 80-73 win over USC, which was on after the Iowa video game, was the 2nd most enjoyed college video game in ESPN history at 6.7 million. ABC had both local finals on Sunday, with South Carolina balancing 3.1 million in its win over Oregon State and North Carolina State drawing 2.5 million versus Texas.
Clark’s 4 March Madness video games on ESPN and ABC have actually balanced 6.83 million. Iowa will deal with UConn in Friday’s 2nd nationwide semifinal at the Women’s Final Four on ESPN. The winner will deal with either South Carolina or North Carolina State on Sunday. The championship game video game will air on ABC.
The Hawkeyes’ 89-68 win over Colorado in Saturday’s local semifinal balanced 6.9 million audiences on ABC.
Iowa’s previous 5 telecasted video games have actually gone beyond 3 million audiences, consisting of the previous 3 that have actually drawn a minimum of 4.9 million.
The 60 ladies’s competition video games are balancing 1.5 million,