While the Aces are busy selling out season tickets, the WNBA draft is touting a sellout of its own.
The 2024 WNBA draft, which will likely see Caitlin Clark go No. 1 overall to Indiana after the Iowa senior announced she would forgo her final year of collegiate eligibility, will be open to fans for the first time since 2016. And it didn’t take long for those fans to get their tickets to see Clark.
It was announced Thursday that tickets for this year’s draft, of which there were roughly 1,000, sold out within 15 minutes of going on sale.
When it was announced that the draft would be open to fans, commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a statement that it would be one “fans won’t want to miss.”
"We are focused on creating elevated events that WNBA fans won't want to miss, at a time when the energy for the WNBA has never been higher," WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a statement.
"As the official start to the WNBA season, we knew the WNBA Draft 2024 presented by State Farm should be transformed into a larger, fan-focused event to celebrate the incredible talent set to enter the draft.”
The Indiana Fever have the No. 1 overall pick in this year's draft, which will take place on April 15 at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN.