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Women's NCAA tourney attendance down 30% from record '24
- Television ratings for the first round averaged 367,000 viewers, up 43 percent from 2023 but down from 469,000 viewers last year, according to ESPN PR.
- The tournament lost star JuJu Watkins due to a season-ending injury, impacting viewer interest and attendance.
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Women's NCAA tourney attendance down 30% from record '24
The women's NCAA Tournament is chock full of new stars, but attendance through the first two rounds has dropped significantly minus last year's household names including Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. It was always going to be difficult to match…
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Women's tournament starts strong, lags behind Clark-crazed 2024 viewership
ESPN is off to a hot start in the women’s college basketball department, albeit behind the Caitlin Clark-fueled numbers the network put up last season. The first and second rounds of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament posted its second-best audience on-record, trailing only last year’s first round viewership buoyed by the Clark frenzy. Per Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, ESPN’s Friday and Saturday coverage across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, an…
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