Caitlin Clark's Fever set a TV ratings bar the WNBA semifinal openers could not come close to reaching

The Indiana Fever's regular-season games on major broadcast networks averaged more than twice the audience of the WNBA semifinal openers on Oct. 4.

And those playoff games were on ABC and NBC.

An OutKick review of Indiana's 10 regular-season games on ABC, CBS and NBC found an average audience of approximately 2.32 million viewers. The two semifinal openers averaged about 1.16 million.

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