Fever-Sky Game Draws 3.31M Viewers, Most Since 1997
Caitlin Clark's 37-point night helped the Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky matchup become the most-watched regular-season WNBA game in nearly three decades.
The Indiana Fever's game against the Chicago Sky on Sunday averaged 3.31 million viewers across NBC and Peacock, making it the most-watched regular-season WNBA game since the league's inaugural season in 1997.
The broadcast also ranks as the third-most-watched regular-season game in league history and peaked at 3.82 million viewers. It trails only two games from the league's opening weekend in June 1997: a New York Liberty-Los Angeles Sparks matchup that drew 5.04 million viewers and a Charlotte Sting-Phoenix Mercury game that drew 3.59 million, both also broadcast on NBC.
Caitlin Clark and the Fever remain the WNBA's biggest draw, having set all-time viewership records this season for games broadcast on CBS, ESPN and Amazon Prime Video.
In Sunday's game, Clark scored a career-high 37 points on eight 3-pointers as the Fever routed the Sky 113-90. Teammate Kelsey Mitchell added 30 points.
The matchup was the teams' first meeting since Chicago's DiJonai Carrington was ejected for a Flagrant 2 foul after fouling Indiana's Sophie Cunningham on a breakaway during the Fever's 90-86 win on August 8. There were no similar incidents in the rematch.
The game still drew controversy from the stands. Former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom, attending as a spectator, was ejected in the third quarter after exchanging words with the Sky's Natasha Cloud. Freedom has since been banned from attending Sky home games.
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