NCAA Tournament final watched by 99 million people a record TV audience for a womens college basketball game

BRISTOL, Conn. — LSU’s 102-85 victory over Iowa in Sunday’s national championship game was the most-viewed NCAA women’s basketball game on record, with 9.9 million viewers on ABC and ESPN2 according to fast national numbers by Nielsen. The total audience is a 103% jump over last year, when South Carolina’s win over UConn averaged 4.85 million on ESPN and ESPN2. Sunday’s audience peaked at 12.6 million. LSU’s first national title in women’s basketball was the first on network television since UConn’s win over Tennessee in 1995. That game averaged 7.4 million on CBS. ESPN took over the rights to the…