NCAA women’s basketball final draws 4 million MORE viewers than men and UConn’s win over Purdue – as Caitlin Clark and Iowa’s loss proves more popular with 18, 9 million fans listening

For the first time, the NCAA women’s basketball championship game drew a bigger audience than the men’s final, with South Carolina-Iowa edging out UConn-Purdue by more than 4 million people.

The Gamecocks’ victory over the Hawkeyes averaged 18.9 million viewers, while the Huskies’ loss to the Boilermakers averaged just 14.8 million.

The women’s final was broadcast on a major network, ABC, while the men’s final was broadcast on the cable network TBS.

Purdue-UConn started at 9:20 p.m. Eastern Time, while Iowa-South Carolina started at 3:00 p.m. and finished at 5:30 p.m., while the men’s final was almost played on Tuesday.

Interest in seeing Caitlin Clark’s final college game has skyrocketed, as Sunday’s championship was the most-watched game in women’s college basketball history.

In Edey’s final college game, he failed to give Purdue its first-ever national championship.

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