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This was the highest rated WNBA broadcast on ESPN since a 1999 Western Conference Finals game between the Houston Comets and Los Angeles Sparks received 1,052,000 viewers and a 1.1 household rating. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The average viewership for the 4 finals games in 2012 was 477,000.
In the current format of the WNBA playoffs, the top eight teams in the regular season, regardless of conference, participate in a single-elimination tournament system. The eight teams are then seeded by their regular season records, with the higher seeded team (or the team with the better record) in a series given homecourt advantage.
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a women's professional basketball league based in the United States. It is composed of 12 teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and league play started in 1997.
The league continued its TV schedule rollout with news from CBS and CBS Sports Network (40 games), NBA TV (46), Prime Video (17) and Facebook Watch (20) on Wednesday. The WNBA will expand to a 36 ...
Thursday, August 15: Phoenix at Chicago at 8:00 p.m. ET. Washington at Minnesota at 8:00 p.m. ET on ESPN3. New York at Los Angeles at 9:00 p.m. ET on ESPN.
Also on Sunday, the Mercury host the Sky at 9 p.m. ET. Caitlin Clark scored 29 points with 10 assists as the Indiana Fever resumed the WNBA season with a 98–89 win over the Phoenix Mercury.
Vickie Johnson ( Louisiana Tech) Paul Goriss. Barbara Turner ( Connecticut) Athletic trainer. Natalie Trotter. Strength and conditioning coach. Drew Williams. Legend. (C) Team captain.
The 2011 WNBA Finals was the first coached by two women. In 2014, the Chicago Sky became the first team to appear in the WNBA Finals with a sub-.500 record. In 2016, the Los Angeles Sparks won by one point despite a later announcement by the WNBA that officials missed an earlier shot-clock violation at 1:14, which should not have counted. [1]