With two-and-a-half weeks left within the WNBA’s common season, the league has already damaged its single-season attendance report.
League officers introduced Thursday that the league’s 13 groups have drawn a complete of two,501,609 followers over 226 video games this season, surpassing the earlier mark that was set in 2002 when the league had 16 groups. It additionally took the WNBA 256 video games to succeed in the milestone in 2002.
The recognition explosion in girls’s school basketball, spurred initially by the Caitlin Clark-Angel Reese rivalry, carried over to the WNBA final season when Clark and Reese have been rookies.
Bought-out arenas turned the norm for Clark and the Indiana Fever.
Whereas Clark and Reese have each been damage this season, ticket gross sales haven’t slowed due to the arrival of rookie guard Paige Bueckers in Dallas, the curiosity over the enlargement Golden State Valkyries and expanded tv protection.
And after increasing final 12 months’s 40-game schedule to 44 video games this season, the WNBA is on tempo to shatter the earlier attendance report.
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