It doesn't matter when she plays, people just want to watch Caitlin Clark. The Indiana Fever phenom drew significant ratings during the team's WNBA preseason game against the Brazilian National Team on Sunday.
The contest drew 1.6 million peak viewers. That figure was 13 percent higher than the average regular-season WNBA game that aired on ESPN last season.
WNBA Countdown saw an even larger increase in its audience before the contest. The program drew 571,000 viewers, up 71 percent compared to last year's average.
Clark didn't disappoint during the contest, which saw her return to Carver-Hawkeye Arena for the first time since she left Iowa.