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These numbers would be surpassed by the national championship game, which was seen by an average of 9.9 million viewers, and peaked at 12.6 million—making it the most-watched women's college basketball game of all-time. [17] It was a 103% increase over the previous year's championship game, which was carried by ESPN in primetime. [15]
Division I women's record career scoring average of 28.42 points per game, fractionally ahead of the previous record by Mississippi Valley State's Patricia Hoskins (28.38). First D-I player, male or female, with 200 three-pointers in a season (201). First D-I women's player to average 5 threes in a season (5.15), passing Pierce's previous record.
In regards to total points, Caitlin Clark currently holds the single-season scoring record for NCAA Division I of 1,234 points, set during her final season at Iowa in 2023–24. [2] She is also the only NCAA Division I women's basketball player who scored more than 1,000 points in more than one season (2022–23 and 2023–24). [3]
The 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.It determined the national champion for the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season and was contested by the Iowa Hawkeyes from the Big Ten Conference and the Louisiana State (LSU) Tigers from the Southeastern Conference.
The top 25 highest scorers in NCAA Division I women's basketball history are listed below. While the NCAA's current three-division format has been in place since the 1973–74 season, [ 2 ] it did not sponsor women's sports until the 1981–82 school year; before that time, women's college sports were governed by the Association of ...
The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, sometimes referred to as Women's March Madness, [1] is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 women's college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to determine the national championship.
The 2023–24 UConn Huskies women's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut (UConn) during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Huskies, led by Hall of Fame head coach Geno Auriemma in his 39th season at UConn, split their home games between Harry A. Gampel Pavilion on their campus in Storrs , and the ...
That game drew 12.3 million viewers, at the time the most ever for a college basketball game – men's or women's – on ESPN. They won 71–69 over Connecticut in the national semifinal [10] – establishing a new viewership mark at 14.2 million viewers [11] – to reach the national championship game for the second year in a row.