Iowa’s game Sunday against Ohio State is the hottest ticket in women’s basketball history, and it’s easy to see why.
Superstar Caitlin Clark is 18 points shy of passing Pete Maravich’s NCAA Division I scoring record. On Thursday, she declared for the 2024 WNBA Draft, making it known this is her final season at Iowa — and making Sunday her senior day at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Oh, and the opponent, No. 3 Ohio State, already beat Clark and Iowa this season in a game that ended with a court-storming Buckeyes fan crashing into her.
The matchup is the most expensive women’s basketball game, college or WNBA, on record, according to data from secondary marketplace TickPick.
The current price to get into the game on TickPick is $503, which is 49 percent more expensive than the “get-in” price of $354 for the Iowa-Michigan game on Feb. 15 when Clark broke the women’s NCAA all-time scoring record. The lowest-priced non-student ticket available on StubHub as of 8 p.m. ET on Thursday was $395. However, that number does not include the fulfillment and service fee, which varied in the low hundreds depending on the ticket’s face value.
The overall average purchase price of tickets listed on TickPick as of Wednesday morning, a day before Clark’s draft declaration, was $546….
