Caitlin Clark helps Fever deliver WNBA's largest regular-season TV audience in 29 years

Caitlin Clark didn’t need Enes Kanter Freedom or DiJonai Carrington to turn Fever-Sky into appointment TV Sunday night.

Her presence has made every Indiana Fever game must-watch television.

Still, the nearly 3.5 million people who watched on NBC and Peacock got more than a typical Fever game .

First, there was Carrington spending two weeks making the rematch personal.

Then, there was Kanter bringing the WNBA’s women’s-sports debate directly courtside.

WHO IS DIJONAI CARRINGTON? WNBA STAR WHO SMACKED SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM, GOT EJECTED AND BLAMED 'WHITE PRIVILEGE' Indiana’s 113-90 win averaged 3.31 million viewers and peaked at 3.82 million, making it the most-watched WNBA regular-season game since opening weekend in 1997, the league’s inaugural season, and the third-most-watched WNBA regular-season game ever.

Clark had already shown what she does with a national television window.

Indiana’s July 12 game against the defending champion Las Vegas Aces averaged 2.64 million viewers across NBC and Peacock.

That's been a theme throughout the season.

Clark's popularity even had rival networks arguing about which one aired the most-watched WNBA game of the season last month.

Clark and the Fever had already broken all-time WNBA viewership records on CBS, ESPN, ION and Prime Video with the Aug.

16 Fever-Dream game on ESPN also becoming the largest cable audience in league history.

CAITLIN CLARK HELPS WNBA SHATTER ANOTHER TV RATINGS RECORD AS FEVER-DREAM DRAWS MASSIVE AUDIENCE NBC deserves credit for putting Indiana in a rare Sunday-night primetime spot.

But it can’t manufacture the appetite.