Caitlin Clark, Diana Taurasi Help WNBA Make History in Fever vs. Mercury Game

Caitlin Clark's drawing power remains unmatched.

The Indiana Fever rookie has brought a surge of attention to the WNBA, attracting some of the largest television audiences in league history. Her game on Sunday against Diana Taurasi and the Phoenix Mercury set another mark, SportsMedia Watch noted .

"Sunday’s Fever-Mercury WNBA regular season game averaged 1.93 million viewers on ESPN, marking the fourth-largest WNBA audience since Memorial Day 2001," the report noted. "The top four have come this season alone, all for games involving Caitlin Clark and the Fever."

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The outlet noted that Sunday's game was the most-watched ever involving Taurasi in the WNBA, beating out her career debut in May 2004.

"Fever-Mercury was the tenth WNBA game this season to average at least one million viewers," the report noted. "The league entered this season having gone nearly 16 years without a single seven-figure audience. The ten games with one million viewers is the most in a single WNBA season since the league’s final year with NBC in 2002 (12)."

Clark helped lead her team to a gritty win in the game, sinking a pair of late free throws to give the Fever a 3-point lead. Indiana went on to win 88-82.

There was almost another historic mark in the contest. Clark ended the game one rebound shy of a triple-double, which would have made her the first rookie in WNBA history to achieve that mark. Clark ended the game with 15, points, 12 assists and 9 rebounds.