Reining national player of the year Caitlin Clark had 28 points, nine rebounds and five assists as the No. 4 Hawkeyes beat the Badgers to open Big Ten play.
The Caitlin Clark experience brought the largest home crowd for a University of Wisconsin women's basketball game in at least the last 17 seasons to the Kohl Center.
The Badgers' Dec. 10 game against Clark and Iowa had 12,142 tickets scanned, by far the highest since Wisconsin started using digital scanners at gates in 2006.
The announced crowd for the 2023 game against Iowa, however, was 14,252. Wisconsin now sells most of its tickets for women's basketball games as general admission so it doesn't fill the entire arena.
The big crowd brought the Badgers' season average for ticket scans to 2,265, the highest it has been since the 2009-10 season. Without the Iowa game, the average fell to 1,648, a figure more in line with most recent seasons.
The crowd at the Kohl Center for the Badgers women's basketball game against Caitlin Clark and Iowa on Dec. 10, 2023, was Wisconsin's largest since ticket scans began in 2006.