Through each stop of Caitlin Clark’s year, both while at Iowa and during her rookie season with the Fever, her fans have followed.
In January, Rutgers had its first women’s basketball sellout since 2006.
Both of Indiana’s games at Barclays Center against the Liberty featured plenty of fans weaving as close to Clark as they could go, waiting for the WNBA star to finish warmups and sign autographs.
The Fever have even experienced a 265 percent surge in attendance, The Athletic reported last month.
And that fan presence, to former women’s basketball player and coach Nancy Lieberman, makes the Caitlin Clark effect similar to the Taylor Swift effect.
“It doesn’t matter who people fancy at the moment,” Lieberman said Friday during an appearance on SiriusXM. “It’s Caitlin Clark. She’s the Taylor Swift of women’s basketball right now. Her fans are like ‘Swifties.’ They’re extraordinarily loyal. And in every arena you go into, half the people there are her fans wearing her jerseys. She’s a media superstar, but damn, she’s backed it…
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