Caitlin ClarkHis regular-season debut will be an unmissable event in the WNBA, but getting into the arena for Tuesday’s game has become significantly more difficult.
The Connecticut Sun announced Monday that their home opener against Clark and Indiana fever was a ticket sale with 8,910 tickets sold. The Sun said it was their first sellout in a home opener since their first game in Connecticut in 2003.
This type of concern is becoming the norm for Clark, who used to University of Iowa phenom and is the No. 1 pick in this year’s WNBA. She helped attracted 13,000 fans to her first home game — a preseason contest Thursday with the team Atlanta Dream. Her first preseason game, at Dallas, was played before a sellout crowd.
The curiosity surrounding Clark has some rivals Move the game to a larger location to accommodate ticket sales, and a Fever team that hasn’t made the playoffs since 2016 will now have 36 of the 40 regular-season games were on national televisionincluding on Tuesday (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2).
Playing in front of a full arena has become the norm for Clark, who has fully embraced his new home city.
“For me, this is the best part of it,” Clark said after Thursday’s game. “You have to go out and compete every night, and if one night isn’t good for us, you have an opportunity to come back a few days later and give feedback.”
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
