Aside from it driving ticket sales for Iowa, which has always been a
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peripheral top 10-ish level of program since Vivian Stringer ran it in the '80's, I don't think Clark generates any staying power for the game at all. People just want to see her. The Iowa fans are back because they realize the bar to maybe get lucky one year and be able to topple a UConn or SC type of program potentially exists and Iowa can pull it off with NIL money, something they could never hope for in football or MBB. But without Clark getting them to back to back natties, I think they would be selling 4k tickets at most. That slight taste of there maybe possibly being a chance will get the Iowa fans out in droves, but again, that only exists because of a century plus of goodwill that the school has with its fanbase, the WNBA fans ain't cheering for the laundry, they're cheering for Caitlin.  Previous Message
Yesterday Clark's team played the Washington Mystics in Baltimore. Clark's injured. As the Post reported today,
The Mystics moved Wednesday’s game to Baltimore — a market underserved for pro basketball but with deep roots in the game — to capitalize on the larger capacity of its arena. But the secondary market for tickets crashed once Clark’s status was announced Monday . The cheapest tickets, which carried a list price of $41 when they first went on sale, were down to $6 within an hour of tip-off. By the looks of it, many of those tickets went unsold. The announced attendance of 11,183 reflected tickets sold; the actual number of occupied seats was far fewer.
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- BANG!* - auto May 23, 2025, 8:20:04
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