CNN can’t stop lying: Women’s basketball edition

(It’s the kind of lie that jumps out at you just from reading the headline. You know it is a lie from pure intuition. You know it is a lie, even though the women are playing at a 19,000 seat arena and the men are at a 63,000 seat football stadium. But liars gonna lie, so I pasted a little reality below the story. -nvp)

Average cost of women’s Final Four tickets is double the men’s

By CNN Newsource staff

Published: Apr. 4, 2024 at 6:10 AM MST

(CNN) – What happens when you add Caitlin Clark to the Final Four? The answer is women’s ticket prices now averaging more than twice the cost of the men’s. Logitix, a company that analyses such prices, said women’s tickets have averaged more than $2,300 the past couple of days. For the men’s Final Four, that number’s about $1,000.