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Ticket prices to see one among Caitlin Clark’s last dwelling video games for Iowa are taking off since Clark introduced her intention to enter the 2024 WNBA Draft.
Tickets for her final common season dwelling sport on Sunday towards Ohio State are nonetheless the most costly for a ladies’s basketball sport on report, surpassing faculty and WNBA video games, based on TickPick.
At the moment, the typical value for a seat is $571, a whopping 1,065% greater than the typical buy value of a NCAA ladies’s basketball sport this season of $49. That’s barely risen from Tuesday, after they have been $557.
Clark can additional etch her title into the historical past books on Sunday, needing 18 factors to go Pete Maravich’s all-time faculty scoring report of three,667 factors. She is averaging 32.2 factors per sport.
TickPick mentioned that the most costly itemizing for that sport has bought for $1,001 at Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment in Iowa Metropolis, Iowa. For individuals who don’t wish to pay, the 1 p.m. ET sport will air (without cost) on FOX.
However the most cost-effective ticket has fallen just a few {dollars} since earlier this week — from $491 to $456. Nonetheless, that’s 31% greater than the “get-in” value for the February 15 sport when she broke the scoring record towards the College of Michigan.
“Demand to see her break the all-time ladies’s scoring report earlier this month hit report highs and this sport is now surpassing that,” TickPick co-CEO Brett Goldberg beforehand informed CNN. “It’s a giant second not just for Iowa followers, however faculty sports activities followers typically.”
Her recognition has additionally helped the Huge Ten promote out tickets for the ladies’s basketball convention event which follows the common season, for the first-time ever. It should happen in Minneapolis, about 300 miles from Iowa’s campus, starting March 6.
On Thursday, Clark, who’s a senior however is eligible for a fifth season, confirmed on social media that this will likely be her last season at Iowa. “Whereas this season is much from over and we now have much more targets to attain, it will likely be my final one at Iowa. I’m excited to be coming into the 2024 WNBA Draft,” she mentioned in a post on X.
The WNBA Draft will likely be held on April 15, with the Indiana Fever anticipated to draft her after the workforce received the lottery for the No. 1 general decide. TickPick informed CNN that 83% of complete tickets bought for the Fever’s upcoming season have come after her announcement.