![]() ![]() One mother, Chelsea Hester, is here with her 10-year-old son Paxton. (Michael Jordan and Steph Curry are crossed out). 22 jerseys, a sea of homemade posters:įrom Grand Rapids, Mi. There are divisions of kids wearing Iowa shirts and No. “THERE SHE IS!” shrieks one when Clark puts up her first shots. None of that matters in the least to the throng of kids, most of them girls, packed around the railing when Clark is warming up. At the moment, counting past games and ticket sales for future visits, the Hawkeyes have set records or sold out the house in 28 of 32 games. Iowa’s average in true road games so far Is 11,637. Defending national champion LSU is drawing 6,891, Connecticut 5,863, No. The gate that day was 14,252.Ĭonsider the road attendance averages this season for the other women’s programs who are powerhouses at the gate. Wisconsin’s largest crowd for this season had been 3,581 until Iowa came to Madison. “I didn’t know there was such a thing,” Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said that night. ![]() Rutgers had its first sellout in nearly 18 years and even the New York City Metro Iowa Hawkeye Club piled in. The Hawkeyes attracted the first sellout ever at Northern Iowa, set a record at the Gulf Coast Showcase in Florida. When Iowa beat Virginia Tech in Charlotte, the crowd of 15,196 was the largest women’s basketball crowd ever in the state of North Carolina. And that was for a preseason game with DePaul.īut it is on the road where the Clark Craze is truly stunning. 3 Hawkeyes with their rock star at guard are sold out every game at home, and in a successful bid for a national all-time record, scheduled one event outside in the football stadium and drew 55,646 - or 26,000 more live souls than had ever witnessed a women’s contest. Some of them will even be rooting for Purdue. Mackey Arena will be sold out with an announced gathering of 14,876. The Boilermakers traditionally have a healthy following and this season are averaging a very solid 4,826 fans a game, but Wednesday night is something different. It is a Wednesday night in West Lafayette and the Purdue women are hosting Iowa. 9wdYiwpB85- Iowa Women's Basketball January 11, 2024 Starting this weekend, some of them in Iowa will be eating her newly released cereal for breakfast. A good many 10-year-olds were onto her long before that. LSU put a stop to it all in the championship game, but the nation’s media had found Clark in a big way. Her Iowa smile could spread from Davenport to Council Bluffs. It was last spring’s NCAA tournament when Caitlin Clark truly went roaring into national celebrity, gunning down one opponent after another with an astonishingly complete and mature game a triple-double machine who could be a long-range assassin on the court - also as deft a passer as maybe the women’s college game has ever seen - but an affable and approachable big sister figure off it. A clear connection to Taylor Swift, who is an even bigger sensation, but can she hit a 3-pointer? “We’re sitting down low,” says the woman who has brought her daughter and a friend. On the back, another message: Caitlin Clark, the Eras Tour. One girl in an Iowa 22 jersey holds up a My Birthday Wish check list. Parents with little girls, little girls with posters they made at home. It's two hours before tipoff, the temperatures are the mid-30s, and still they’re lining up outside Mackey Arena. ![]()
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