Baylor-Notre Dame Marks ESPN's Most-Viewed Women's Title Game Since '04

ESPN averaged 4.2 million viewers for Baylor’s 80-61 win over Notre Dame in Tuesday night’s NCAA women’s basketball national championship game, marking the most-viewed women’s title game since ’04 and fifth most-viewed since the net began airing the event in ‘96. The ’04 telecast on the net drew 5.6 million viewers for UConn’s win over Tennessee. Baylor-Notre Dame was also up 11% from 3.8 million viewers for Texas A&M-Notre Dame last year. For ESPN’s three women’s Final Four telecasts, the net averaged 3.6 million viewers, marking the most-viewed Final Four since ’04. The Final Four was also up 13% from 3.2 million viewers last year. Overall, the NCAA women’s basketball tournament was the second most-viewed ever for ESPN/ESPN2, averaging 1.8 million viewers, which was just behind last year’s record-setting numbers. The ’11 tournament across the two networks averaged 1.9 million viewers (ESPN).