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South Carolina head coach Daybreak Staley cuts down the web after the Closing 4 school basketball championship sport towards Iowa within the girls’s NCAA Event, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Cleveland. South Carolina received 87-75. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash)
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark sits on the bench on the finish of the Closing 4 school basketball championship sport towards South Carolina within the girls’s NCAA Event, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Cleveland. South Carolina received 87-75. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash)
South Carolina head coach Daybreak Staley cuts down the web after the Closing 4 school basketball championship sport towards Iowa within the girls’s NCAA Event, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Cleveland. South Carolina received 87-75. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash)
South Carolina head coach Daybreak Staley cuts down the web after the Closing 4 school basketball championship sport towards Iowa within the girls’s NCAA Event, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Cleveland. South Carolina received 87-75. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash)
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark sits on the bench on the finish of the Closing 4 school basketball championship sport towards South Carolina within the girls’s NCAA Event, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Cleveland. South Carolina received 87-75. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash)
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark sits on the bench on the finish of the Closing 4 school basketball championship sport towards South Carolina within the girls’s NCAA Event, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Cleveland. South Carolina received 87-75. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash)
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — South Carolina’s victory over Caitlin Clark and Iowa in Sunday’s girls’s NCAA championship sport had a preliminary viewers common of 18.7 million on ABC and ESPN. The one sporting occasions in the USA to attract an even bigger TV viewers since 2019 have been soccer, the World Cup and the Olympics.
The viewers numbers are anticipated to extend when Nielsen releases its remaining numbers on Tuesday. Nielsen says the viewers peaked at 24 million.
It’s the most-watched basketball sport since 2019, when the lads’s NCAA title sport between Virginia and Texas Tech averaged 19.6 million on CBS.
Monday night time’s males’s remaining between UConn and Purdue was being proven on TBS and TNT. It’s attainable that this would be the first 12 months the ladies’s title sport has an even bigger viewers.
The 2015 Closing 4 sport between Wisconsin and Kentucky on TBS is the one school basketball sport on cable to attract over 18.7 million. That sport averaged 22.63 million.
The 2022 males’s remaining, which matched Kansas and North Carolina on TBS, averaged 18.1 million.
Clark and Iowa have the three greatest audiences for ladies’s school basketball. The Hawkeyes’ victory over UConn Friday night time averaged 14.2 million, and their April 1 victory over LSU within the Elite Eight, a rematch of final 12 months’s title sport, drew 12.3 million.
Clark noted the audience total on X, posting “18. 7 MILLION” with a fireplace emoji.
The viewers for the nationwide title sport was up 89% over final 12 months, when Clark and Iowa fell to LSU. And it was 285% greater than the viewership for the Gamecocks’ title two years in the past, after they beat UConn.
The final NBA sport to attract a minimum of 18 million was Sport 6 of the 2019 Finals between the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors (18.34 million).
The ladies’s remaining additionally had the largest viewers for a Sunday afternoon sporting occasion on ESPN and ABC since Jan. 10, 2021, when an NFL playoff sport between the Baltimore Ravens and Tennessee Titans averaged 24.82 million. (ESPN and ABC don’t have the rights to Sunday afternoon NFL video games all through the season, which routinely draw audiences exceeding 25 million on CBS and Fox.)
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