Friday night time’s Iowa-UConn matchup averaged a 7.1 ranking with 14.2 million viewers throughout ESPN and ESPN2.
The viewership represents the most important viewers for a NCAA ladies’s basketball recreation ever recorded by Nielsen.
The sport was additionally ESPN’s most-viewed basketball recreation ever.
It was the third most-watched basketball recreation within the final two years, behind final Sunday’s NC-State-Duke matchup and final 12 months’s UConn-San Diego State title recreation. It was additionally the tenth most-watched basketball recreation ever on cable.
South Carolina’s win over NC State earlier within the night time delivered 3.7 ranking with 7.1 million common viewers.