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Days after the Iowa Hawkeyes set the all-time scores document for a girls’s faculty basketball sport of their Elite Eight win over the Louisiana State College Tigers, the staff set yet one more document.
The Hawkeyes’ 71-69 victory on Friday over the UConn Huskies within the Last 4 averaged 14.2 million viewers, making it the most-viewed girls’s basketball sport and the most important viewership for an ESPN basketball broadcast, according to the sports activities community.
Friday’s sport peaked at 17 million viewers, making it ESPN’s second-best non-football telecast ever.
Monday’s Elite Eight matchup noticed greater than 12 million viewers tune in to look at the much-hyped rematch of 2023’s girls’s nationwide championship sport, which noticed Iowa avenge final yr’s loss and advance to its second straight Last 4.
The viewers for that sport peaked at 16.1 million viewers, in accordance with ESPN.
The typical girls’s NCAA event sport’s viewership ranking is up by 127% yr over yr for ESPN, in accordance with Disney, the sports activities community’s dad or mum firm, CNN previously reported.
The Hawkeyes will tackle the South Carolina Gamecocks on Sunday for the ladies’s NCAA event nationwide championship in Cleveland, Ohio.