Saturday’s sport between the Caitlin Clark-led Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky drew a mean of two.7 million viewers on ABC, making it probably the most watched WNBA regular-season contest in 25 years, per Sports activities Media Watch.
The sport, which peaked at 3.1 million viewers, drew the league’s second-largest common viewers for any occasion, behind solely final yr’s WNBA All-Star Sport (3.44 million).
It was the biggest regular-season viewers for a WNBA sport since Memorial Day 2000.
ESPN on Sunday additionally had its finest “Sunday Night time Baseball” viewers in seven seasons because the New York Mets-New York Yankees rivalry averaged greater than 2.53 million viewers and peaked at 3,018,000 viewers, in line with Nielsen.
The Fever thrashed the rival Sky 93-58, with Clark recording a triple-double and choosing up her first flagrant foul as a professional. Clark fouled Angel Reese to forestall a transparent layup, and Reese was incensed and shouted at her for a number of moments after the whistle. Clark’s foul was upgraded to a flagrant 1 after assessment.
The WNBA is investigating allegations of hateful feedback or noises made towards the gamers through the incident. A video shared on social media confirmed a male fan — sporting a purple duplicate Clark jersey with matching shorts — sitting courtside and making high-pitched noises whereas Reese shot a free throw with 4:38 left within the third quarter.
On Sunday, the WNBA launched an announcement saying that it was “conscious of the allegations” and searching into the matter.
Discipline Degree Media contributed to this report.
