Ticket prices skyrocket for Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever debut

The ticket prices to see the Indiana Fever’s season opener against the Connecticut Sun are rocketing sky-high. The WNBA matchup will be the debut for first overall selection Caitlin Clark who lit up the scoreboard for the Iowa Hawkeyes for four seasons.

Clark’s debut is driving up the ticket prices with the average price for a seat at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut sitting around $300. Even the cheapest seat in the house is expensive at this point.

The lowest price available for a re-sale ticket on TicketMaster is currently $127. The going price for a typical Connecticut Sun home game is $45. Even more eye-popping, court-side seats are $1,300 to $4,900.

Fever versus Sun to stream on Disney+ for first time

Luckily, fans of the Fever, the Sun or Caitlin Clark who don’t want to pay such high prices have the opportunity to stream the game next Tuesday. ESPN announced last week that the WNBA tip-off game will stream live on the Disney+ platform. The games will also be available on ESPN+ and ESPN2.

This will be the first time that Disney+ will stream live sports. It did have experimental streams with the NFL and NHL, in which it used technology to stream games live, but with animated characters instead of real-life athletes. The hope is Clark and the Fever will bring in maximum eyeballs to Disney+. The news came after Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company would add an ESPN title to Disney+ later this year, with selected live games available at no charge.

“We see this as a first step to bring ESPN to Disney+ viewers as we ready the launch of our enhanced standalone ESPN streaming in the fall of 2025,” Iger said during Disney’s earnings call.

Clark ready for debut with Indiana Fever

During the Fever’s preseason opener against the Dallas Wings, Clark led the team with 21 points. However, Indiana lost the matchup despite the double-digit performance from the former Iowa Hawkeyes star.

“I thought we played really hard,” Clark said during her postgame interview. “Just a great atmosphere for women’s basketball. I think it’s a good kickoff to the WNBA season. I think the way we play, there’s some things we could have executed a little better. I thought we could have gotten our offense a little bit better. The pace was amazing.

“That’s fun basketball people like to watch. But overall, definitely what I expected.”

It was the first preseason game of the year, yet more than 6,000 people were in attendance for the Wings’ win against the Fever. It was almost 1,500 more than Dallas’ average attendance during the 2023 regular season.

Before the regular-season opener on Tuesday, the Fever face the Atlanta Dream for another preseason game on Thursday night. The game is at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis with tipoff at 7 p.m. ET.