Fox drew 2.2 million viewers on Saturday night for USC’s win over UConn, marking Fox’s second-best women’s college hoops game ever, and the best audience for any women’s hoops game this season. USC-UConn also is the second-best college hoops audience (men or women) this season to date, behind only the 5.1 million viewers that Illinois-Arkansas drew on Thanksgiving on CBS (with an NFL game lead-in).
ABC drew the second-best NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship on record on Sunday afternoon for the Penn State-Louisville matchup, behind only last year’s record-setting 1.6 million viewers for Texas-Nebraska. Penn State-Louisville also is the third-best NCAA volleyball audience of any kind, behind the Texas-Nebraska title match last year and the No. 1 telecasts -- Fox’s first-ever college volleyball window in fall 2023, which was a regionalized Big Ten women’s window (Minnesota-Wisconsin and Ohio State-Michigan) that averaged 1.66 million. The superlative for the final comes on the heels of record-setting semifinal matches and a record regional round across ESPN networks.
The chart below lists viewership figures for select recent sports telecasts.
