History has been made in Iowa City! Facing off against DePaul in a charity exhibition game at Kinnick Stadium, home of the Hawkeyes football team, Iowa set the women’s basketball attendance record Sunday at 55,646.
Iowa’s yellow-and-black faithful shattered the previous record set in 2002 — 29,619 attended the NCAA national championship that year between UConn and Oklahoma in San Antonio — on an inspiring afternoon that redirected all profits toward the adjacent Iowa Children’s Hospital.
The record crowd watched reigning Naismith National Player of the Year Caitlin Clark post an emphatic 34-point triple-double as Iowa bounced DePaul 94-71.
Read more about the historic afternoon at Kinnick below:
👏 55,646: Iowa, DePaul shatter women’s basketball attendance record
Long before opening tip from Kinnick Stadium’s makeshift hardwood Sunday, it was clear that the hordes of incoming Hawkeye fans would lay waste to the existing women’s basketball attendance record.
Now, we know by exactly how much. With the Hawkeyes growing their lead near 20 points early in the third quarter, a PA annoucement confirmed the attendance in Iowa City Sunday at 55,646, nearly double the previous record established at the 2002 Women’s Final Four.
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