With Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever preparing for a 2025 WNBA season that the franchise hopes will develop into a championship-contending campaign, their sold-out preseason matchup from Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City against the Brazilian National Team on May 4 will now become the league's first nationally televised preseason game as ESPN is scheduled to broadcast the event.
While the exhibition is purely a tune-up for the regular season, which starts on 17 May for Indiana, the main aura surrounding the game is Caitlin Clark's return to Iowa City.
There, she set numerous offensive records, won three straight Big Ten Tournament crowns, and took the Hawkeyes to back-to-back national championships to close out her four years with the program. During her tenure with Iowa, Clark shot 46.2 percent from the field with 1,293 career makes and 37.7 percent from three-point range on 548 connections from deep en route to becoming the NCAA's all-time leading scorer in both men's and women's basketball.
Adding to Clark's legacy in Iowa City, the Hawkeyes raised her jersey and number to the rafters of Carver-Hawkeye Arena in early February, joining two others who have been given the prestigious honor.
During her first professional season with the Fever, which saw her win the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year award, Clark averaged 19.2 points, 8.4 assists, 5.7 rebounds, and 1.3 steals per game while shooting 41.7 percent from the field and 34.4 percent from 3-point range.
The exhibition game from Carver-Hawkeye Arena is scheduled for a 3:00 P.M. CT start on 4 May.
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