AP Wire
The matchup between Indiana’s Caitlin Clark and Dallas’ Paige Bueckers on the WNBA’s opening weekend averaged 2.49 million viewers on ABC, making it the league’s second-most watched regular-season game on ABC or ESPN. Dallas’ 107-104 victory was also the 14th most-viewed sports event of the past week, according to Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel. The top 12 sports programs were NBA playoff games. Saturday’s game featured the last four No. 1 picks in the WNBA draft: Aliyah Boston and Clark of the Fever, and Bueckers and Azzi Fudd of the Wings. It was Clark’s first regular-season game since last July.