When requested about what she stated to Caitlin Clark after Iowa\u2019s 94-87 win over LSU within the Elite Eight sport in Albany \u2014 a sport that noticed the transcendent Clark rating 41 factors and <\/span>tie the NCAA Event single-game document with 9 3-pointers<\/span> \u2014 LSU girls\u2019s basketball coach Kim Mulkey stated, \u201cWhat did I say to her? I stated, <\/span>I certain am glad you\u2019re leaving. I stated, Lady, you one thing else. By no means seen something prefer it.\u201d<\/span>
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Nobody has ever seen something like what we’re seeing proper now in relation to girls\u2019s faculty basketball viewership. Clark has shot down loads of information throughout her profession and she or he and those that performed in Monday evening\u2019s sport can now add this to their resume: <\/span>They performed within the most-watched girls\u2019s faculty basketball sport in historical past. <\/span>
Iowa\u2019s win over LSU averaged 12.3 million viewers<\/a> and peaked at 16 million viewers. <\/span>That shattered the earlier all-time mark set final yr for <\/span>LSU\u2019s win over Iowa in final yr\u2019s championship, a sport that averaged a document 9.9 million viewers and peaked at 12.6 million viewers.<\/span>
UConn\u2019s win over USC<\/a> in Monday\u2019s different Elite Eight matchup drew 6.7 million viewers, which might have surpassed each title sport viewership since 1996 apart from final yr\u2019s championship. Viewership for UConn<\/a>-USC peaked at 10.4 million viewers.
Previous to final yr, the<\/span> earlier document for an NCAA girls\u2019s basketball title sport within the ESPN period (since 1996) was 5.68 million viewers for UConn\u2019s title win over Oklahoma in 2002, a sport that featured Sue Hen and Diana Taurasi. The earlier all-time document for any girls\u2019s basketball sport previous to final yr\u2019s title sport was 8.1 million viewers for a Virginia-Stanford nationwide semifinal on CBS in 1992.<\/span>
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