Final Friday evening’s WNBA showdown between Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever towards Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky set an ION tv scores file.
The matchup, which featured the 2 frontrunners for WNBA Rookie of the 12 months, introduced in a mean of 1.6 million viewers and peaked at 1.92 million viewers, in accordance with a report from Jason Clinkscales of Sportico. It’s the most-viewed sport within the historical past of the ION community, and it beat out each faculty soccer sport that aired on varied networks on Friday evening in scores.
Clark is clearly a key purpose for the scores soar throughout the WNBA this season, as out of the 21 video games which have drawn not less than a million viewers, 18 of them have included Clark and the Fever. Reese has introduced loads of fanfare of her personal to the WNBA, so it is no shock that the late-season matchup that includes the duo shattered WNBA tv data.
It has been a very sturdy season for WNBA basketball on the ION community, as video games this season have averaged 639,000 viewers, which represents a 123% enhance in comparison with the typical of 287,000 viewers final 12 months.
The Fever have locked themselves right into a playoff spot, whereas the Sky, who’re losers of seven straight, nonetheless have some work to do to clinch the No. 8 seed. With seven video games remaining within the common season, Chicago holds the No 8 spot through tiebreak at 11-22 on the 12 months. The Atlanta Dream are additionally 11-22, whereas the Washington Mystics are one sport behind at 10-23.
