Caitlin Clark might be the best show to ever land on the women’s college basketball scene, and the ratings prove it. The Athletic reported that the Iowa-South Carolina Final Four game will, when all the numbers tally up, almost certainly go down as the most viewed women’s college basketball game in history.
This is no disrespect to any other player on that court Saturday night, but those numbers can be directly tied to Clark, who has single-handedly brought millions of viewers to the women’s game.
People like myself, who haven’t watched a full women’s college basketball game in years, made sure to be in front of a television for the Clark show in the national title game on Sunday afternoon, only to see Clark get hit with her third foul in the second quarter, her fourth foul in the third quarter, and have to sit on the bench for long stretches and play extremely carefully when she was out there.
Iowa lost the game to a better LSU team, which was dealing with some foul trouble of its own. Still, the Tigers likely would’ve won either way. But the biggest loss of the night was the opportunity the women’s game had to put its best foot forward for the full 40 minutes. It’s a shame for any player to get hit…
