The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Clark fans can expect to pay hundreds to witness her run at record
Fans who want to be able to say they were in the arena when Caitlin Clark set the NCAA women’s career scoring record will be paying an unprecedented premium at this point.
No. 4 Iowa’s game against Michigan at Carver-hawkeye Arena later today was trending toward being the most expensive women’s basketball ticket of all time, pro or college, according to secondary market seller Tickpick.
The average ticket price was $394 on Wednesday.
Face value for Iowa women’s basketball tickets is about $15 when broken out of a seasonticket package, assistant athletic director for ticket operations Jess Rickertsen said.
Clark needs eight more points to pass Kelsey Plum as the NCAA women’s career scoring leader. She’s averaging a nation-leading 32 points per game this season and 28.2 for her career, so it’s safe to assume Plum’s record of 3,527 points for Washington from 201317
will fall against the Wolverines.
The record for most expensive women’s basketball average ticket purchase price on the secondary market is $150 for the 2022 WNBA All-star Game, according to Tickpick.
After Clark fell short of the scoring record in Iowa’s 82-79 loss at Nebraska on Sunday, the average for Thursday’s game swelled. The least expensive ticket was sold for $110 in November. The cheapest Wednesday was $337.
Men's highlights
SAN DIEGO STATE 71, COLORADO STATE 55 >> Jaedon Ledee scored 22 of his 27 points in the second half as the host Aztecs rallied from a 14-point halftime deficit to rout the Rams late on Tuesday night.
Colorado State (19-6, 7-5 Mountain West) led 44-30 at halftime but made just 3 of 25 shots from the field, including 1 of 11 from 3-point range and were outscored 41-11 in the second half.
Ledee added six rebounds for the Aztecs (19-6, 8-4), and Lamont Butler (Riverside Poly HS) had 11 points, 10 rebounds and three steals.
NEW MEXICO 83, NEVADA 82 >> Jamal Mashburn Jr. made a pair of clutch 3-pointers in the final minutes and scored 17 points as the Lobos won at Reno.
Mashburn hit a bucket from long range that tied the game 80-all with 1:13 to play, and he capped the scoring with a corner 3 with 20 seconds left. Kenan Blackshear missed a jumper against tight coverage by Inland product Jemarl Baker Jr. (Roosevelt HS) to end it.
Jaelen House scored 13 points and Donovan Dent (Centennial HS) had nine points and seven assists for New Mexico (20-5, 8-4 Mountain West Conference).
Nick Davidson had 19 points, seven rebounds and two blocks for Nevada (19-6, 6-5).
NO. 4 MARQUETTE 78, BUTLER 73 >> Tyler Kolek scored 27 points, including a key 3-pointer with 90 seconds left, and Oso Ighodaro had 17 points and 10 rebounds for Golden Eagles (19-5, 10-3 Big East) at Indianapolis.
DJ Davis (Riverside Poly, Centennial HS) had seven points and seven rebounds for Butler (16-9, 7-7).
SYRACUSE 86, NO. 7 NORTH CAROLINA 79 >> Judah Mintz scored 25 points, JJ Starling had 23 and the host Orange stunned the Tar
Heels on Tuesday night.
Mintz had 16 points in the second half and Starling scored 13 after halftime for Syracuse (16-9, 7-7 Atlantic Coast Conference).
RJ Davis led UNC (19-6, 11-3) with 19 points.
NO. 12 BAYLOR 79, NO. 25 OKLAHOMA 62 >> Jayden Nunn scored a seasonhigh 27 points, including three 3-pointers in a go-ahead run before halftime, as the Bears won in Waco.
NO. 19 BYU 90, UCF 88 >> Jaxson Robinson scored 21 points off the bench and Noah Waterman had 17 points and nine rebounds for the Cougars (18-6, 6-5 Big 12) in Provo. BYU won it’s fourth in five games.
ILLINOIS STATE 80, NO. 23 INDIANA STATE 67 >> Johnny Kinziger scored a career-high 31 points to lead the Redbirds and spoil the host Sycamores’ return to the Top 25 ranking for the first time since Larry Bird led them to the national title game 45 years ago.
Indiana State (24-3, 13-2) lost for the first time in the last 10 games.