Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final topped the sports viewership charts for Monday, June 10.
Monday’s Oilers-Panthers NHL Stanley Cup Final Game 2 averaged a 1.9 rating and 3.56 million viewers on ABC, up 53% in ratings and 46% in viewership from Panthers-Golden Knights on cable networks TNT, TBS and truTV last year (1.3, 2.45M) and the most-watched sporting event of the day.
The Panthers’ win trails only Lightning-Avalanche two years ago (3.75M) as the most-watched Game 2 of a Cup Final since 2018. (Keep in mind it was only the second Game 2 over that span to air on broadcast television.) Viewership increased 14% over Game 1 on Saturday night, the biggest jump from Game 1 to Game 2 of a Cup Final in nine years. For more on the Stanley Cup numbers, see this article.
Placing second for the day, the deciding Game 3 of the NC State-Georgia NCAA baseball super regional averaged 1.18 million on ESPN — the largest college baseball audience prior to the Men’s College World Series since 2010, when regionalized action averaged 1.19 million. This year’s super regionals accounted for the top two, with the ESPN portion of Sunday’s Clemson-Florida game placing second (that game finished on ESPNU).
The full super regionals averaged 501,000 viewers, up 22% from last year and the highest since 2009.
Elsewhere Monday, NBA TV averaged 424,000 for a Fever-Sun WNBA regular season game, trailing only Fever-Liberty earlier this month (430K) as the largest WNBA audience ever on the network (which became Nielsen rated in 2010). Caitlin Clark and the Fever have played in the network’s top four games.
In something of a milestone, a WNBA game on NBA TV — which is in fewer than 40 million homes — outdrew the competing Major League Baseball window on FS1, Orioles-Rays at 249,000. In other MLB action, regional coverage on MLB Network drew 159,000.
Monday, June 10 sports viewership
