Caitlin Clark continues to be a ratings machine as she and the Indiana Fever have helped five different networks achieve WNBA viewership records this season.

In her final season at Iowa, Clark and the Hawkeyes were part of three of the most-watched women’s college basketball games of all time. After setting the record in the Elite Eight against the Angel Reese-led LSU Lady Tigers, the Hawkeyes went on to break that record a few days later with Paige Bueckers and the UConn Huskies.

Clark’s rookie season in the WNBA is off to a similar start. Her regular season debut against the Connecticut Sun, which aired on ESPN2, averaged 2.1 million viewers. It was the most-watched WNBA game in the channel’s history.

According to a report from Front Office Sports, several other channels set new records. That includes ABC (1.71 million), ESPN (1.56 million), Ion (724,000), CBS (704,000), and NBA TV (333,000).

Of those six channels, five featured Clark and the Fever. The lone channel that didn’t was CBS, which set its record with a matchup between the New York Liberty and the Minnesota Lynx.

The Indiana Fever have played in four of the five most-watched games this season. Though the team has struggled — it was 1-7 heading into Thursday’s game against the Seattle Storm — Clark has continued to improve and recently set a career high with 30 points. If her impressive shooting displays in college become a regular occurrence at the professional level, those viewership numbers will likely continue to climb.

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