12.3 million viewers watch US women’s college basketball I watched it more than the World Series
University of Iowa Clark (No. 22) rejoices after confirming victory
Over 12 million TV viewers were counted for the National Collegiate Sports Association (NCAA) college basketball women’s game.
ESPN, an American sports media outlet, reported on the 3rd, “According to Nielsen statistics, the number of viewers for the TV broadcast of the women’s college basketball game between the University of Iowa and Louisiana State University held on the 2nd (Korean time) was 12.3 million.”
This is the largest number of viewers in American women’s college basketball history. The previous record was 11.84 million viewers for a game between the University of Southern California and Louisiana Tech in 1983.
ESPN said, “On this day, Ronel Blanco of the Houston Astros achieved a no-hitter and no run in the American professional baseball major league, and Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA) scored 52 points, but both received less attention than women’s college basketball games. “He evaluated.
A game between the University of Iowa and Louisiana State University.
In addition, Forbes, an American economic media outlet, said, “This figure surpasses both the average viewership of 11.64 million for one NBA championship game last year and the average viewership for one American professional baseball Major League World Series game of 9.1 million.” paid attention to
In addition, the game between the University of Iowa and Louisiana State University that day was the district final, but it was the quarterfinals, not the national final.
The reason why so much attention was focused on this game was because of Iowa University’s ‘super star’ Caitlin Clark.
Clark set the all-time scoring record (3,900 points) across the NCAA men’s and women’s first division leagues, and is likely to be the first overall pick in this year’s Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) rookie draft.
She is highly popular in the United States due to her ability to shoot 3-pointers and assist, and finished second in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Division 1 tournament last year.
However, the opponent they met and lost to in the finals at that time was Louisiana State University.
As the rematch took place in the quarterfinals this year, the interest of basketball fans grew even more.
Moreover, in last year’s finals, Angel Reese, another ‘star player‘ at Louisiana State University, made a hand gesture towards Clark that meant ‘I can’t see’, and after securing victory, he made a gesture that meant ‘the championship ring is ours.’ As they ridiculed each other, their rivalry intensified.
However, in the rematch that day, the University of Iowa won 94-87, and in particular, Clark scored 41 points by hitting as many as 9 3-pointers.
Louisiana State University’s Reese, who had a confrontation with Clark in the finals a year ago, contributed with 17 points and 20 rebounds, but failed to achieve his second consecutive victory in the tournament. 한국야동
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