A month-long break did nothing to slow the Caitlin Clark ratings train.
Sunday’s Storm-Fever WNBA regular season game averaged 2.23 million viewers on ABC, marking the fifth-largest WNBA audience since 2001 (fourth if one excludes the WNBA Draft). Only the WNBA All-Star Game (3.44M), WNBA Draft (2.45M) and two meetings of Clark’s Fever and Angel Reese’s Sky (2.30 and 2.25 million) averaged more viewers.
Indiana’s win was the 19th game window and 20th telecast this season to top the million viewer mark, extending a league record. Of those, all-but-two have featured Clark and the Fever.
The game was the most-watched in the history of the Seattle Storm, a franchise in its 25th season that has won four WNBA titles. The previous high was 1.25 million for a 2002 playoff game against the Sparks on NBC.
For the weekend, only the Saints-49ers NFL preseason game on FOX averaged more viewers.
On Friday night, regional action featuring Mercury-Fever averaged 1.22 million on ION — the network’s second-largest WNBA audience since it began carrying games a year ago, trailing another regional window featuring the same matchup last month (1.34M). Some markets received Dream-Storm.
In other WNBA action, a Liberty-Aces WNBA Finals rematch averaged 874,000 viewers on CBS Saturday afternoon — the network’s largest WNBA audience for a game not including Clark — preceded by Lynx-Mystics at 577,000.
On ION, Friday’s Sun-Wings nightcap averaged 485,000.
