How to Watch Women's College Basketball With Sling TV
Women's College Basketball has never been more popular. Here's how to catch all of the action live with Sling TV.
UPDATE: The Women's Final Four is here! Follow this link for a preview and how to watch with Sling.
We’re in a golden era for Women’s College Basketball.
Whether due to increased parity, a shift in tactics that favors sharpshooters, or the Caitlin Clark effect (or, most likely, a combination of all of the above), the popularity of women’s college hoops has surged in recent years. This year’s National Championship game between the LSU Tigers and Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes drew nearly 10 million viewers, a 104-percent increase year-over-year. Those numbers are staggering: According to ESPN, the game was the “most-viewed college basketball game (men’s or women’s) on record” across all ESPN platforms.
If you’re a fan, Sling TV has the most coverage for the best value. With ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC (via ESPN3) games available with Sling Orange, FS1 games on Sling Blue, and specialty channels like ESPNU, SEC Network, and Big Ten available with the Sports Extras pack, Sling has you covered from the regular season to the Final Four®. Here’s the weekly schedule of games on Sling, along with a few storylines to keep an eye on this season.
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Women’s College Basketball on Sling
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Caitlin Clark Soars for the Hawkeyes
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Compared to other sports, basketball seems to produce a high number of transcendent players who redefine the game. We’re witnessing one now in Iowa’s senior gaurd Caitlin Clark. The reigning Naismith Player of the Year has already set a number of school records at Iowa, and she’s quickly moving up the leaderboard in a number of categories, including women’s career points, where she should reach No. 4 all-time in just a matter of games. Clark is already “the first player in Division I, women's or men's, to record at least 3,000 points, 750 rebounds and 750 assists.”
Clark’s success is largely due to her 3-point prowess, where she regularly displays Steph Curry-like range. In last year’s March Madness®, she nailed 32 threes in just six games, the most ever in an NCAA tournament, men or women. Quite simply, Clark is one of the most electrifying players in all of basketball, college or professional.
LSU Drama
We already referenced the ratings to last season’s championship game, which were undoubtedly boosted by what’s fast becoming one of the juiciest rivalries in all of college basketball. LSU and Iowa seem to have more bad blood than Taylor and Kanye, and for the Tigers, the drama that bubbled up in last year’s final seems to have continued this season. Angel Reese, who was named Most Outstanding Player of the 2023 women's NCAA tournament, missed four games in November for reasons that are still unclear, and earlier this week, LSU coach Kim Mulkey said that junior guard Kateri Poole is “no longer with us,” without providing any additional clarity. In spite of these red flags, the seventh-ranked Tigers continue to pounce on opponents; their 133-44 obliteration of McNeese State on Dec. 12 set new school marks for margin of victory and points in a game.
UConn’t Always Get What You Want
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UConn is to women’s basketball what the New York Yankees are to baseball: The gold standard everyone else is chasing. But like the Yankees, UConn has fallen on hard times as of late. The Huskies are currently ranked No. 17, their lowest position in 30 years. Ironically, UConn’s fall from unprecedented excellence has been good for the game, as it has allowed other programs and players to step into the spotlight. Even legendary UConn coach Geno Auriemma agrees.
“You're either bad for basketball because you win all the time, or your dynasty is over because you haven't won in a couple years,” Auriemma said before the season, according to CT Insider. “Somewhere in the middle would not be a bad place to be.” That’s where the Huskies find themselves at the moment, as up-and-coming programs like Colorado and Kansas State stand above them in the rankings. But if UConn has regressed from “historically great” to merely “very good,” it provides them with an opportunity they haven’t had in years, if not decades: The chance to sneak up on opponents in the NCAA Tournament in March.