ESPN Picks Up WNBA Preseason Game Featuring Fever Star Clark’s Iowa Return

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WNBA star Caitlin Clark and the Fever will hit the airwaves sooner than expected this year, with multiple sources reporting that ESPN will televise a preseason game between Indiana and the Brazil national team on May 4th.

The broadcast boost will reportedly make the Fever vs. Brazil matchup the WNBA’s first-ever nationally televised exhibition game, a move that comes after a 2024 preseason battle between the Minnesota Lynx and Chicago Sky earned more than two million streams — from a fan’s cellphone.

LSU teammates Hailey Van Lith and Angel Reese celebrate a play during a 2024 NCAA tournament game.
Newly reunited in the WNBA, Van Lith and Reese’s Chicago Sky will play a preseason game at LSU in May. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

WNBA teams follow in the Indiana Fever’s preseason footsteps

The May matchup will mark the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year’s return to Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena, with the Fever set to play in front of a sold-out crowd at Clark’s alma mater.

Indiana isn’t the only team taking a trip down memory lane this preseason, with several teams bringing exhibition games to university arenas before the 2025 WNBA season tips off on May 16th.

Two days before facing the Fever, Brazil will clash with the Sky at Chicago star Angel Reese’s collegiate home of LSU — an arena also familiar to new Sky recruit Hailey Van Lith.

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