No Caitlin Clark, without qualifications history.
The Final Four of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament saw a strong fall in the television qualifications of the record audience last year. Without Clark in the tournament, the UCONN VS transmissions. UCLA and South Carolina vs. Texas averaged only 3.9 million viewers for ESPN. It marked a 64% decrease in 10.8 million record spectators in 2024, according to sports of the main office.
Even so, even without Clark, this year’s Final Four was the second most observed in history and was even an improvement of the 2023 edition that also had Clark.
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The Hawkeyes Guard of the University of Iowa, Caitlin Clark, applauds as with his teammates during the Cornhusker game of the University of Nebraska at the Big Ten Femaning Basketball Championship in the Target Center on March 10, 2024 in Minneapolis. (Angelina Katsanis/Star Tribune through Getty Images)
But Clark’s popularity as a university player helped the sport peak with a historical conscience last year that the Women’s Championship game between his Iowa team and the South Carolina of Dawn Staley had better grades than the male championship game for the first time.
With Clark in the WNBA, the Pro League benefited from this popular increase in 2024.
Clark turned fever into the most watched team in the WNBA for a landslide in His rookie yearLike the 14 most won -wonba season of the WNBA season they included fever. In addition to that, he broke the record of most of the All-Star votes for any player in the history of the WNBA.
Within the impact of Caitlin Clark on male basketball
The Indiana fever guard, Caitlin Clark, plays against the wings of Dallas in Indianapolis, on September 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, Archive)
At the beginning of September, the fever of Indiana de Clark played in front of a television audience of 1.26 million viewers in a game against the Minnesota Lynx that was played at the same time as a NFL game of week 1 on Friday by the NFL between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers.
In the first final of Clark’s regular season against the Washington Mystics on September 19, the 20,711 fans who appeared in Capital One Arena established a new record for the regular season of the highest WNBA attended.
Clark drew a WNBA record 1.84 million viewers of their first playoff game against Connecticut Sun on September 22, while competing with a NFL Sunday. He followed him with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for game 2.
Caitlin Clark, by Indiana Fover, talks to the media during an introductory press conference on April 17, 2024 in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE through Getty Images)
But after Clark fever season ended, the WNBA playoffs also saw a strong fall in the spectators.
The first game between the Aces and La Libertad, a rematch of the WNBA finals last year between two of the most popular and successful teams in the League, attracted an audience of only 929,000, which was 50% less than game 1 of the fever against the sun.
