BRISTOL, Conn. — Caitlin Clark’s return to Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena for a WNBA preseason game between the Indiana Fever and the Brazilian national team averaged 1.3 million viewers on ESPN, the network announced Tuesday.
The average viewership for Sunday’s game was 13% higher than ESPN’s 2024 regular-season average for the WNBA.
The Fever-Brazil TV audience peaked at 1.6 million, and the game drew a sellout crowd of 15,000 at Carver-Hawkeye, where the average paid ticket price on the resale market was $440.
Clark, starting her second season with the Fever, scored 16 points in Indiana’s 108-44 win. It was the NCAA Division I all-time scoring leader’s second time back at Carver-Hawkeye since she left the Hawkeyes; her No. 22 jersey was retired in a ceremony after Iowa’s 76-69 win over USC on Feb. 2.
