Indiana Fever rookie phenom Caitlin Clark has shortly turn out to be one of many faces of the WNBA, and the crew has benefited vastly from her star energy.
The crew gave an update on Wednesday morning — simply two days earlier than it kicks off the ultimate 14 video games of the common season — about a few of the file numbers it has skilled this season, a lot of which is due to Clark.
The Fever have bought one hundred pc of season-ticket stock, their attendance is up 264 p.c from final season and so they lead the league in attendance with a mean of 16,898 followers per recreation (practically 4,200 extra followers per contest than the next-closest crew).
The crew additionally set broadcast data for the most-viewed WNBA video games on ABC, ESPN, NBA TV and Ion networks, and it has performed within the 12 most-watched WNBA video games this season.
There’s additionally been a 1,193 p.c improve within the crew’s merchandise gross sales from final season, and it broke the single-game merchandise gross sales file 4 occasions all year long.
The Fever’s social media numbers are additionally off the charts. Within the four-month window from April by means of July, the crew has had greater than 800 million views throughout its social media platforms and gained 1.3 million followers since April 15 when Clark was drafted No. 1 total.
