Most-Watched Women’s Basketball Game Ever! 12.3 Million Watch Iowa-LSU Game with Caitlin Clark — Women’s Final 4 Tickets Going Higher than Men’s Tickets… By $399!

Gateway Pundit ^ | Apr. 3, 2024 | By Joe Hoft

[Kazan]

Monday night’s women’s basketball game between Iowa and LSU was the most watched women’s basketball game ever.

Monday night's rematch between @IowaWBB & @LSUwbkb scores as the MOST-WATCHED WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAME ON RECORD

12.3M viewers
Most-watched college basketball game EVER on ESPN platforms

More details to come…#NCAAWBB | #MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/55FU8C1NwD

— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) April 2, 2024

How big of a night was it?

At 12.3 million viewers, last night's Iowa-LSU game had more viewers than:

• Any women's CBB game ever
• The 2023 NBA Finals
• The 2023 World Series
• The 2023 Orange Bowl
• The 2023 Big Ten Championship
• The 2023 Cotton Bowl
• The 2023 Pac-12 Championship
• The 2023 Big-12 Championship
• The 2023 ACC Championship
• The 2023 Peach Bowl
• Thursday Night Football
• Every 2023 college football regular season game except Ohio State vs. Michigan

— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) April 2, 2024

USA Today reports:

Monday night’s Elite Eight matchup between Iowa and LSU was watched by 12.3 million viewers, according to ESPN, which makes it the most-viewed women’s college basketball game on record and the most-watched college basketball game ever on ESPN platforms.

Iowa prevailed 94-87 in the national title game rematch to deny LSU a chance at a second consecutive championship.

LSU’s 102-85 victory over the Hawkeyes last year set the previous record, averaging 9.9 million viewers and peaking at 12.6 million viewers. That game was broadcast by ABC. Monday’s aired on ESPN.

Monday’s game peaked at 16.1 million viewers, per ESPN.

ESPN said the contest drew the second-highest audience for any basketball game on the network since 2012, trailing only Game 7 of the 2018 Eastern Conference finals between LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers and the Boston Celtics, which Sports Media Watch says drew 13.6 million.

What a game it was as Caitlin Clark broke more records and carried Iowa to a victory.

And the women’s Final 4 tickets are outpricing the men’s tickets by almost double!

Minimum ticket price for men: $571
Minimum ticket price for women: $970

At this very moment:

The minimum ticket price on StubHub to get into the Men’s Final Four: $571

The minimum ticket price on StubHub to get into the Women’s Final Four: $970 pic.twitter.com/2hZxc58ze9

— John Fanta (@John_Fanta) April 2, 2024

[sten]

Headline: Women’s Game Sucks less and Draws Better Crowd

[al baby]

Her face looks like my scrotum after surfing

[ealgeone]

The contrast between the two teams was not unnoticed.

[DouglasKC]

Caitlyn Clark highlights against Mich state...wow she’s good....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Oz-lLgpHY

[coalminersson]

Friday espn after the South Carolina game,.

[deport]

Caitlin Clark

[subterfuge]

LOL!!!

[L.A.Justice]

South Carolina is the cream of the crop again this year. But their center is a thug. The coach must be an excellent recruiter based on he record the last 4 years and now they are touting their recruitment of a great freshman class for next year.

I think you are talking about Cardoso...She is from Brazil...She is 6 ft 7 in tall...I think she was in a fight...

[coalminersson]

near the end of one of her recent games she walked by a member of the other team gave her a forearm near the scorers table and knocked her down and was ejected or it was her 5th foul.

[reg45]

I hear that Caitlin Clark is unhappy with the pay scale in the WNBA. She should just declare that she is a male and sign up for the NBA draft, then she will get a shot at the big bucks. If she’s lucky, she will be chosen in the last round.