Caitlin Clark fans are disagreeing on where the star was placed on FOX Sports' ranking of the greatest college women's basketball players.

Numbers are up this year as well, thanks to a variety of factors including star power, close contests and a better-than-ever product.

You don’t have to inform ESPN senior vice president of production Meg Aronowitz about the challenge of producing the women’s NCAA Tournament without Caitlin Clark the year after she had galvanized the property to NFL viewership heights. “You never want to be the guy that follows Nick Saban, right?” Aronowitz said, laughing.

The Fever played 36 of their 40 2024 regular-season games on national broadcasts. With the WNBA expanding its schedule to 44 games this season, it’s unsurprising Indiana’s total increased. Last year, six different WNBA television partners set viewership records for their highest WNBA game. All six involved Fever telecasts.

WNBA season is less than two months away, with opening night set for May 16. Ahead of all the action, the league announced the national television broadcast and streaming schedule on Thursday, which will feature 20 games on CBS networks,

In their first season after selecting Clark with the No. 1 pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft, the Fever set several TV viewership records, including the two most-watched WNBA games on ABC ever (against the Seattle Storm in August and the New York Liberty in May).