A 21-year-old attendance record was broken on Sunday, October 15, 2023, when 55,646 fans packed into Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City to watch the Iowa Hawkeye Women’s Basketball Team take on the DePaul Blue Demons in an exhibition game.
The first women’s basketball game to be played outdoors in a football stadium – set an NCAA single-game record for the largest attendance in women’s basketball history! The previous attendance record had stood since the 2002, when 29,619 witnessed the national title game between Oklahoma and UConn at Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
A historic day in Iowa sports herstory.
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