NCAA Women’s Final Tops Men For First Time, Watched By 18 Million

For the primary time ever, the NCAA girls’s basketball championship pulled in additional viewers than the boys’s recreation … with Kamilla Cardoso and South Carolina’s win over Caitlin Clark‘s Iowa Hawkeyes beating out UConn vs. Purdue by 4 million!!

The numbers for Monday night time’s males’s contest between the Huskies and Boilermakers had been reportedly simply launched … and whereas the sport did higher than UConn’s matchup with San Diego State a 12 months prior, it obtained blown out of the water by Clark going head-to-head with the undefeated Gamecocks.

The lads’s recreation drew in 14.8 million common viewers … and Sunday’s girls’s recreation earned 18.8 million, shattering the report for a girls’s faculty basketball recreation.

A variety of people will chalk it as much as the Caitlin Clark impact … but it surely’s value noting the ladies’s match featured a ton of stars all around the bracket, leading to historic scores all through the match.

South Carolina head coach Daybreak Staley even took a second to thank Clark for bringing extra eyeballs to girls’s hoops after her squad accomplished the undefeated season … which she definitely did.