The womens tourney is insanely more exciting than the mens this year. They have marketed the women well and the storylines and competition have been fantastic.
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Originally Posted by cgjackson222
I was amazed to learn how popular women's college basketball is.
According to ESPN:
"Iowa's 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA tournament on Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN, according to Nielsen. That makes it one of the most-viewed games in any sport other than NFL football over the past year.
Iowa-LSU outdrew all but one of the five games in last year's NBA Finals, along with the clinching game of last year's World Series (11.48 million)....
Only one men's NCAA tournament game this year had bigger viewership: North Carolina State's win over Duke on Sunday in the men's Elite Eight on CBS averaged 15.1 million.
The 60 women's tournament games are averaging 1.5 million, a 127% increase over last year." |