INDIANAPOLIS -- Gainbridge Fieldhouse has never had a busier summer than the last few months. As the Indiana Fever close out their 2024 regular season, they're leaving shattered attendance records in their wake. At home, the Fever have averaged more than 17,000 fans at each game. On the road, an average of 14,000 fans are showing up. Of the 40 games the Fever played this regular season, only four haven't been sellouts. In fact, the final game of the regular season was another broken record. The Fever played the Washington Mystics Thursday night in front of more than 20,000 people, a new record for a single WNBA game. The most dedicated Fever fans will tell you the games have been different this year. ”Being on the front stretch of the Indy 500 and seeing a mass of people all screaming, standing there and you're standing there in awe," said Conrad Piccirillo. "It's an amazing thing. It is the loudest." Piccirillo has been a Fever season ticket holder for nearly 20 years. He, his wife and their friends started going to watch his daughters as members of the Fever Inferno. They watched as Tamika Catching brought a championship to Indy in 2012. "It was a great team," Piccirillo said. "Linn Dunn coaching, it was a lot of fun." That's when Bunmi Akintomide became a fan, too—watching the greatest player in Fever history. ”Watching Tamika Catchings doing her thing back then," Akintomide said. But since then, they've both sat through some games where there the arena has been a lot emptier. "You couldn't give a ticket away," Piccirillo said. "It was rough, lean years. And now, I have a lot more friends than I used to have and all of them want to go to a Fever game." Akintomide said it's been crazy to watch the change happen so quickly. ”We have more fans compared to what we've had in the past," he said. Piccirillo said everywhere you look you have people of all ages sporting Fever shirts, including a demographic that he didn't see much of in years past. ”Last year if you went to the men's room there were crickets," Piccirillo said. "This year, there's a line actually to get into the bathroom." These longtime fans are happy to welcome the hundreds of thousands of new fans from across the country. "We go out to dinner before every game and four or five hours before the game you see Fever fans everywhere," said Mariah Rivera. Mariah and her dad, Rick, are first-time Fever season ticket members. They'd been to a few games before this season but did follow Caitlin Clark closely in college. Now, they're using the Fever games as father and daughter time they never thought they would have. ”I tell him he's crazy for driving so many hours even on work nights," Mariah said. Mariah lives here in Indianapolis, but her dad lives more than two hours away in Warsaw. For almost every game this season, he's taken the drive to south to Indy. ”130 miles each way, so you're talking 260 miles each game times 18 games, so whatever that is," Rick said with a laugh. To be exact, that's 4,680 miles, but Rick doesn't mind at all. He's always been a girl dad, a fan of women's sports and enjoys watching Fever All-Star Caitlin Clark play. ”We've been following her since college," he said. We went to some of her college basketball games in Bloomington and Michigan, at Ann Arbor. It also gives me an opportunity to connect with my daughter." It’s been more than eight years since the Fever hosted a home playoff game. If they can make it happen this year, there’s no doubt from these folks on what will happen. ”It would be a wild environment,” Mariah said. "This place will just be rocking off the hinges," Piccirillo added. If the Fever can win one of their first two playoff games on Sunday and Wednesday, they guarantee a home playoff game on Friday to decide the first-round series.