Women’s NCAA basketball championship outdraws men’s on TV for first time – NBC Connecticut

For the primary time, the NCAA girls’s basketball championship outdrew the lads.

UConn’s 75-60 victory over Purdue in Monday evening’s males’s last on TBS and TNT averaged 14.82 million, in response to Nielsen. That was not sufficient to surpass the 18.87 million who watched South Carolina defeat Caitlin Clark and Iowa in Sunday afternoon’s girls’s last on ABC and ESPN.

Monday evening’s viewers was a 4% improve over final 12 months’s last between the Huskies and San Diego State on CBS. The quantity seemingly dropped off throughout the second half when UConn took management to turn into the primary repeat champion since Florida in 2007.

The 2 males’s semifinal video games averaged 12.8 million. UConn-Alabama attracted 14.18 million and the sport between Purdue and North Carolina State averaged 11.45 million. Friday evening’s girls’s semifinal video games averaged 10.8 million, with the Iowa-UConn recreation averaging 14.2 million.

The 67 video games of the lads’s event throughout CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV averaged 9.9 million viewers, a 3% improve over final 12 months. This 12 months’s event benefited from extra blue blood and energy convention packages advancing past the primary weekend.

The Huskies as soon as once more showcased their dominance in March Insanity, triumphing over the Boilermakers 75-60 to assert the lads’s nationwide championship title as soon as once more.