Caitlin Clark’s Record-setting Game Draws Top Women’s Basketball Regular-season TV Rating Since 1999

Caitlin Clark’s record-setting sport for Iowa in opposition to Ohio State on Sunday attracted greater than 4 million tv viewers at its peak and was probably the most watched girls’s regular-season basketball sport since 1999, Fox Sports introduced Tuesday.

Clark scored 35 factors and handed Pete Maravich because the NCAA Division I general profession scoring chief in the course of the Hawkeyes’ 93-83 win.

Average viewership was 3.39 million and reached a excessive of 4.42 million late within the second half. Clark set the file with two free throws simply earlier than halftime. No girls’s regular-season sport on any community had extra viewers since 3.88 million tuned in for UConn-Tennessee in January 1999, based on Sports Media Watch.

The sport was the second-most watched faculty basketball sport of the season, trailing solely the 5.18 million who noticed the Michigan State-Arizona males’s sport that adopted an NFL Thanksgiving sport on Fox, SMW stated.

Ohio State-Iowa surpassed the three.01 million who watched the Boston Celtics’ 140-88 rout of the Golden State Warriors on ABC on Sunday.

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AP girls’s faculty basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball

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