The College of Iowa has itself an absolute celebrity of a ladies’s basketball participant in senior guard Caitlin Clark.
The numbers have at all times backed that reality up. Final season as a junior, she averaged 27.8 factors per recreation, 7.1 rebounds and eight.6 assists per contest. By means of 20 video games as a senior, she’s averaging 31.7 factors, seven rebounds, and seven.7 assists.
She was nice final yr, however as a senior, she’s been even higher.
Clark has drawn crowds wherever she performs, and it seems these eyeballs translate to tv as effectively.Â
Per a launch from NBC (h/t Terrible Saying), No. 2 Iowa’s 100-92 upset loss to No. 18 Ohio State this previous Sunday drew file numbers.
The sport, which NBC particularly identified featured Clark, averaged 1.93 million viewers. It goes down because the most-watched common season ladies’s school basketball recreation not simply on NBC, however on any community, since 2010.
Clark led all scorers with 45 factors however OSU ahead Cotie McMahon deserves a shout-out as effectively. She scored 33 and added 12 rebounds.Â
OSU’s win over Clark’s Iowa squad improved the Buckeyes’ rankings from No. 18 to No. 12 within the nation. Due to the loss, Iowa fell to No. 5.