Students and staff weigh in after Sunday’s women’s NCAA basketball finals. With record viewership, the South Carolina Gamecocks beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 75-87. The game averaged about 18.7 million viewers and peaked at 24 million combined on ESPN and ABC. ESPN reported that it was the first time in history the women’s final’s TV audience was larger than the Men’s. a larger TV audience than the men’s, according to ESPN. The men’s Division 1 UConn Huskies vs. Purdue Boilermakers averaged 14.82 million on TBS and TNT, according to NPR. // By Deserae Wills
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