5.5 million watched Iowa beat South Carolina

[Chishawk1425]

Amazing!

March Madness: Iowa’s win over South Carolina drew 5.5 million viewers in the most-watched semifinal on ESPN

Both women's Final Four games averaged 4.5 million viewers on ESPN on Friday night, and Iowa's win over South Carolina was the third most-watched women's game ever on the network.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[BioHawk]

My guess is that number won't be beaten tomorrow night, but tomorrow night's number will still be very large.

Pretty awesome though.

 

[markfromj]

My guess is that number won't be beaten tomorrow night, but tomorrow night's number will still be very large.

Pretty awesome though.

Afternoon.

 

[Chishawk1425]

 

[ichawk24]

Huge audience. Peaked at 6.6M, probably towards the end of a tight hardfought contest. What a night!

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It ranks as the most-watched college basketball game on the ESPN networks, regardless of gender, since a Duke-North Carolina men’s game in 2008 (5.6M)

 

[Underscore2]

I wonder if they are including that ridiculous ESPN2 version.

 

[ROCKY MOUNTAIN HAWK]

My guess is that number won't be beaten tomorrow night, but tomorrow night's number will still be very large.

Pretty awesome though.

Sucks LSU sucks.

Or else Iowa would break the record again!

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Sucks LSU sucks.

Or else Iowa would break the record again!

There's actually an odd contingent of LSU fans who have jumped on their bandwagon.

Viewership will be up, but probably not quite the record-breaking numbers once lobbied about.

 

[ROCKY MOUNTAIN HAWK]

There's actually an odd contingent of LSU fans who have jumped on their bandwagon.

Viewership will be up, but probably not quite the record-breaking numbers once lobbied about.

So you agree that it sucks that LSU sucks..

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

So you agree that it sucks that LSU sucks..

Only if we win.....

 

[kceasthawk]

Huge audience. Peaked at 6.6M, probably towards the end of a tight hardfought contest. What a night!

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It ranks as the most-watched college basketball game on the ESPN networks, regardless of gender, since a Duke-North Carolina men’s game in 2008 (5.6M)

And not there are huge # of Iowa viewers in the state, but how much of the state and upper midwest were without power for the game? Crazy...

 

[Hawk_4shur]

That's incredible!

But then again, it was by far the best thing on TV!

 

[Joes Place]

Certainly doesn't hurt, when you have stars like Kevin Durant, Patrick Mahomes, Mark Wahlberg, etc pushing Iowa WBB and Caitlin Clark on their social media...