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From breaking the all-time college basketball scoring record to drawing the largest women’s basketball regular-season television audience of the past 25 years, there’s no denying the indelible impact Caitlin Clark had on college basketball. Now, after being drafted first overall by the Indiana Fever in this year’s WNBA draft, the Caitlin Clark effect is being felt at the professional level.
CBS announced this week that Sunday’s matchup between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky garnered an average of 2.25 million viewers, making it the most-watched WNBA game across any television network in the past 23 years. According to Front Office Sports, that means six networks have now broken their WNBA single-game viewership records this season, and each game that did it had one thing in common: Clark’s Fever were playing.
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interview with ESPN. “We came off the pandemic year, which was tough for us because that was a pretty existential time for this league to either survive or go away, and we survived and now we’re thriving.”
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Thanks to the increased attention and investment, Engelbert announced in May that the WNBA would commit $50 million to provide full-time charter flights to all teams over the next two seasons, ending a longstanding frowned-upon tradition of players flying commercial. She has also said she hopes to expand the league by four additional teams before the 2028 season.
Scripps Sports is — for a second season — broadcasting WNBA games every Friday night on ION.
Tune in this Friday, June 21, to watch Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever take on Rhyne Howard and the Atlanta Dream at 7:30 p.m. ET. Or catch the Connecticut Sun as they face off against the defending champion Las Vegas Aces at 10 p.m. ET.
ION’s 14-week WNBA schedule is available to TV and streaming viewers nationwide and includes 40+ national, regional, or local games that will be broadcast through Sept. 13.
Click here to view the full upcoming schedule for WNBA on ION.
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