Iowa’s 71-69 triumph over UConn at the females’s Final Four on Friday night balanced 14.2 million audiences on ESPN, making it the most-viewed females’s basketball videogame on record and the biggest audience for an ESPN basketball broadcast
BRISTOL, Conn. — BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Iowa’s 71-69 success over UConn at the ladies’s Final Four on Friday night balanced 14.2 million audiences on ESPN, making it the most-viewed ladies’s basketball videogame on record and the biggest audience for an ESPN basketball broadcast.
The previous females’s hoops mark was 12.3 million for last Monday’s Iowa-LSU videogame in the Elite Eight. Game 7 of the 2018 Eastern Conference finals inbetween Cleveland and Boston was ESPN’s most-watched basketball videogame at 13.51 million.
That likewise makes it one of the most-viewed videogames in any sport other than college football and the NFL over the past couple years. Last year’s NCAA males’s title videogame inbetween San Diego State and UConn balanced 14.79 million.
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