Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese at the WNBA Draft held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 15, 2024 in New York, New York. (Photo by Cora Veltman/Sportico via Getty Images)
Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are pros now. People still want to see them. (Photo by Cora Veltman/Sportico via Getty Images)
One of the biggest oversights in the WNBA television schedule has been remedied.
The Indiana Fever’s first game against the Chicago Sky this season — read: Caitlin Clark’s first WNBA game against college rival Angel Reese — has been flexed from NBA TV to ESPN, according to Sports Media Watch. The two teams will face off June
The move is common sense from ESPN. Clark has brought unprecedented attention to women’s basketball in recent months, and Iowa’s two games against Reese and LSU are a major reason why. The Hawkeyes’ win over the Tigers last month drew 12.3 viewers on the same network, making it the most-watched women’s college basketball game of all time.
That record was broken twice over in Iowa’s next two games, culminating in 18.7 million tuning in for the championship game loss against South Carolina. The 14.2 million viewers for Iowa-UConn in the Final Four was the most-watched basketball game in history, men or women’s as well as college or professional
