A generational matchup of Caitlin Clark and Diana Taurasi delivered one other historic viewers for the WNBA.
Sunday’s Fever-Mercury WNBA common season sport averaged 1.93 million viewers on ESPN, marking the fourth-largest WNBA viewers since Memorial Day 2001. The highest 4 have come this season alone, all for video games involving Caitlin Clark and the Fever.
Indiana’s win was the most-watched WNBA sport to ever contain Phoenix nice Diana Taurasi. Her earlier most-watched WNBA sport was her profession debut towards Connecticut in Might 2004 (1.43M). (Taurasi has performed in entrance of bigger audiences since, however solely throughout the Olympics.)
Fever-Mercury was the tenth WNBA sport this season to common at the least a million viewers. The league entered this season having gone almost 16 years and not using a single seven-figure viewers. The ten video games with a million viewers is probably the most in a single WNBA season for the reason that league’s ultimate yr with NBC in 2002 (12).
As one would anticipate, 9 of the ten video games to prime the million viewer mark have concerned Clark and the Fever. The exception was Sparks-Aces on Might 18, which had a direct lead-in from the Fever towards New York. (One different non-Clark sport completed simply shy of the million viewer mark, Liberty-Aces earlier this month at 996,000.)
Most-watched WNBA video games this season
It bears noting that regardless of all the viewership marks set by Clark and the Fever this season, not one of the video games have but to rank among the many ten most-watched WNBA video games all-time, an inventory that also consists completely of video games on NBC from 1997-2002.
Fever-Mercury was the second half of a WNBA doubleheader that opened with Dream-Liberty at 586,000.