2024 NCAA Women's championship breaks viewing accolades / News - Basketnews.com

The championship game for the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament broke many viewing accolades.

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A wildly successful season for the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was capped off with a record-breaking championship game between South Carolina and Iowa.

Caitlin Clark

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The match-up ended with an 87-75 victory for South Carolina, and the game's broadcast was immensely successful.

According to ESPN, there were 18.7 million viewers and a peak of 24 million viewers for the final game. With this, viewership was up89% from 2023 and 285% from 2022 in previous women's national championship games.

Consequently, it was the most-viewed women's college basketball game since 1992.

Moreover, the event was the most watched basketball game across all tournaments, whether pro or college and men or women, since 2019. It was also the most-watched sports event, disbarring football and the Olympic Games since 2019 once again.

This year's NCAA women's tournament has been quite remarkable and full of stories. One such occurrence is the incoming transition of Caitlin Clark, the record-breaking player of Iowa, from college basketball to professional basketball.

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