They are not quite in the exclusive and elite Caitlin Clark Zone of TV ratings, but the NCAA Regional college baseball playoffs in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, over the weekend on ESPN2 blew away the ratings for the rest of the WNBA across various networks all season.

No. 4 seed North Carolina's 4-3 win over defending national champion LSU in 10 innings at Boshamer Stadium that ended at 9:26 p.m. on Monday drew an average of 964,000 viewers, making it the most-watched NCAA Regional game in history, according to a release by ESPN. North Carolina (45-14) advanced to host West Virginia (36-22) in a best-of-three Super Regional beginning Friday (6 p.m., ESPN2) with a trip to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, on the line.

The previous night, LSU's 8-4 win over the Tar Heels averaged 756,000 viewers on ESPN2, and that wasn't even much of a game. The Tigers led big for most of that one, including by 8-2 after six innings. And that game ranks No. 2 all-time in NCAA Regional viewership, according to ESPN.