MINNEAPOLIS – There are many different ways Caitlin Clark has been reminded of her historic NCAA Tournament performance in Iowa’s rampage to the 2023 championship game, from LeBron James’ public puzzlement about her inability to enter the WNBA Draft to the huge line of autograph seekers when she served as grand marshal at an Indy Car race near Des Moines to the feeling any time these past few weeks when she’s tuned her television to a college football game.
Oh, she knows.
Iowa vs. LSU was a sensation, even if the Hawkeyes wound up on the wrong side of the final score.
“I think just what we were able to do for women’s basketball got people talking about the game: 10 million viewers, that’s more than basically every other college football – most college football games that have occurred this season so far,” Clark told The Sporting News. “And it’s hard to really understand how many people 10 million people are, but you see those numbers up against numbers like college football or whatever it is, it kind of takes you back for a second.”
In March 2023, Clark was almost certainly the biggest reason for a surge of interest in the women’s version of NCAA March Madness that included the record audience of 9.9 million for the championship game. In Sports…
