18.9M Viewers vs South Carolina(All-Time College WBB Record); 14.4M vs UConn; 12.3M vs LSU; 6.87M vs Colorado; 4.9M vs W Virginia; 3.23M vs Holy Cross

[Franisdaman]

For the Sunday April 7, 2024 National Championship game vs South Carolina:









For the Friday April 5, 2024 Final Four NCAA tournament game vs UConn:








For the Monday April 1, 2024 Elite 8 NCAA tournament game vs LSU:





For the Saturday March 30, 2024 Sweet 16 NCAA tournament game vs Colorado:

The Iowa-Colorado NCAA women’s basketball tournament regional semifinal averaged 3.6 rating and 6.87 million viewers on ABC, trailing only last year’s LSU-Iowa final (9.92M) as the most-watched women’s tournament game since 1995.




For the Monday March 25, 2024 2nd Round NCAA Tournament game vs West Virginia:





For the Sat March 23rd, 2024 1st Round NCAA Tournament game vs Holy Cross:

 

[Franisdaman]

Caitlin Clark effect

For the Sunday March 10, 2024 B1G Championship game vs Nebraska (Iowa won 94-89 in OT):








For the Sunday March 3, 2024 Senior Day game vs Ohio State (Iowa won 93-83):





For the Sunday Feb 25, 2024 game vs Illinois (Iowa won 101-85):





For the Super Bowl Sunday Feb 11, 2024 game at Nebraska (Nebraska won 82-79):





For the Saturday Feb 3, 2024 game at Maryland (Iowa won 93-85):





For the Sunday Jan 21, 2024 game at Ohio State (Iowa lost 100-92 in OT):

 

[Franisdaman]

 

[OutbackBowl2017]

According to Nebraska media and fans the real reason the place was sold out was due to Nebraska fans going to see their team compete against Iowa. Nothing to do with CC22 and Iowa’s # 2 ranking. And they are touting the tv numbers that they generated it due to Nebraska and not the true reasons. Oh, and congrats on your only sell out of Pinnacle Bank Arena since it has never happened for a women’s game.

 

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In case the image gets cut off:

 

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[LukaDuka]

Reading some of the stats above I'm curious. How do you "average" X number of viewers for a single game? Shouldn't it be actual number of viewers for one game & an average of X number over all games watched?

Media = idiots....

 

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[Franisdaman]

25 years

 

[Franisdaman]

One of Sunday's viewers....

 

[MitchLL]

Have been reading a few other message boards to see the reaction to all the massive publicity to CC and the Iowa program.

Most all of them are VERY complimentary.
The major exception is the Nebby site.
Absolutely a serious problem with envy and negative comments.
They seem to experience a serious inferiority complex.

 

[Franisdaman]

 

[Allaroundfan]

And know what—Nebraska played a great game, has some great shooters along with the center—how great that all those viewers saw the skill in both teams. Good for the sport!

 

[Franisdaman]

And know what—Nebraska played a great game, has some great shooters along with the center—how great that all those viewers saw the skill in both teams. Good for the sport!

Totally agree.

 

[Franisdaman]

 

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[Franisdaman]

Story regarding the 3.021M who watched Iowa in the B1G Championship Game on Sunday, March 10:

Iowa's Caitlin Clark draws historic viewership numbers for WNBA broadcast partner CBS

Caitlin Clark and Iowa set historic viewership numbers for all of the major traditional TV networks after the Big Ten title game on CBS.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[ichawk24]

Another three million for Clark, Iowa, nearly matching UNC-Duke

Caitlin Clark and Iowa topped three million viewers for a second-straight week and came close to matching UNC-Duke the prior night.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Caitlin Clark and Iowa topped the three million mark for a second-straight week and came to within a hair of matching a top-ten North Carolina-Duke game the previous night.

Sunday’s Iowa-Nebraska Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament final averaged a 1.7 rating and 3.02 million viewers on CBS, trailing only Iowa-Ohio State on FOX the prior week (1.9, 3.39) as the most-watched regular season women’s game since Tennessee-UConn in 1999.

The Hawkeyes’ overtime win, which peaked with 4.45 million viewers, surged four-fold over last year’s Ohio State-Iowa title game on ESPN (0.42, 745K). Ratings and viewership easily surpassed the two subsequent men’s games on CBS, the Drake-Indiana State Missouri Valley Conference title game at a 0.9 and 1.66 million and Michigan State-Indiana at a 1.2 and 2.06 million.

Saturday’s Iowa-Michigan semifinal averaged a 0.6 and 1.08 million on Big Ten Network, surpassing the Iowa-Penn State quarterfinal the previous day (0.51, 1.04M) as the most-watched women’s sporting event ever on the network. It also ranks as the second-most watched basketball game of any kind ever on BTN. BTN became Nielsen-rated in 2018.

 

[Franisdaman]

Another three million for Clark, Iowa, nearly matching UNC-Duke

Caitlin Clark and Iowa topped three million viewers for a second-straight week and came close to matching UNC-Duke the prior night.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Caitlin Clark and Iowa topped the three million mark for a second-straight week and came to within a hair of matching a top-ten North Carolina-Duke game the previous night.

Sunday’s Iowa-Nebraska Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament final averaged a 1.7 rating and 3.02 million viewers on CBS, trailing only Iowa-Ohio State on FOX the prior week (1.9, 3.39) as the most-watched regular season women’s game since Tennessee-UConn in 1999.

The Hawkeyes’ overtime win, which peaked with 4.45 million viewers, surged four-fold over last year’s Ohio State-Iowa title game on ESPN (0.42, 745K). Ratings and viewership easily surpassed the two subsequent men’s games on CBS, the Drake-Indiana State Missouri Valley Conference title game at a 0.9 and 1.66 million and Michigan State-Indiana at a 1.2 and 2.06 million.

Saturday’s Iowa-Michigan semifinal averaged a 0.6 and 1.08 million on Big Ten Network, surpassing the Iowa-Penn State quarterfinal the previous day (0.51, 1.04M) as the most-watched women’s sporting event ever on the network. It also ranks as the second-most watched basketball game of any kind ever on BTN. BTN became Nielsen-rated in 2018.

i think her WNBA game TV ratings are going to be huge, too

 

[ichawk24]

Sunday's rating was also in the dog-crap 11am window. If it was in the 3pm window, I bet they would have drawn nearly 4M.

 

[Franisdaman]

Sunday's rating was also in the dog-crap 11am window. If it was in the 3pm window, I bet they would have drawn nearly 4M.

Yep. And on the West Coast, it was essentially an 8 am tip (and then 9 am when they moved their clocks ahead an hour).

 

[kceasthawk]

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Lol... so did CBS deliver those numbers, or did Clark?

 

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[Hans81]

Have been reading a few other message boards to see the reaction to all the massive publicity to CC and the Iowa program.

Most all of them are VERY complimentary.
The major exception is the Nebby site.
Absolutely a serious problem with envy and negative comments.
They seem to experience a serious inferiority complex.

Typical fuskers. They downplay women’s basketball, yet glorify women’s volleyball, simply because that’s their best sports program. What hypocrisy. 😉

 

[MitchLL]

Typical fuskers. They downplay women’s basketball, yet glorify women’s volleyball, simply because that’s their best sports program. What hypocrisy. 😉

With the unfolding scandal, wbb isn't going to be something they acknowledge.

 

[Franisdaman]

With the unfolding scandal, wbb isn't going to be something they acknowledge.

yeah, things kinda got quiet on that scandal....

 

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[Chuck C]

Sunday's rating was also in the dog-crap 11am window. If it was in the 3pm window, I bet they would have drawn nearly 4M.

If the west coast teams had joined the Big Ten last year instead of next year, those numbers would have been much higher.

 

[Franisdaman]

If the west coast teams had joined the Big Ten last year instead of next year, those numbers would have been much higher.

i wonder what kind of numbers we will see next season....