Sunday’s matchup between the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever was the WNBA’s most-watched game in more than two decades, CBS revealed Tuesday.

According to the network, the game — the second WNBA matchup between Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark — had an average of 2.252 million viewers with a peak of nearly 3 million. Additionally, it was the most-streamed WNBA game ever for Paramount+.

CBS also revealed the viewership was up 225% from a “comparable game window” last year, which was played between the Phoenix Mercury and the New York Liberty.

Clark has been proven to have tremendous drawing power throughout her college and professional career. With the Iowa Hawkeyes, her final games in the NCAA tournament were the most-watched women’s college basketball games of all time. Iowa’s Elite Eight matchup against Reese’s LSU Lady Tigers was the first game to break the record; then that new record was broken days later when the Hawkeyes faced Paige Bueckers and the University of Connecticut in the Final Four.

In the WNBA, it’s been much of the same. Not even halfway through Clark’s rookie season, five networks have set viewership records thanks to Fever games; Sunday, the latest installment in Reese and Clark’s ongoing rivalry continued that trend.

Due to Reese’s flagrant foul on Clark receiving significant media buzz, there’s a good chance that record is challenged once again when they meet for the third time this season on June 23.

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