Caitlin Clark's entire WNBA team combined will get paid about the same as one random back-bench NBA player next year, Axios' Sam Baker writes.

• The Indiana Fever's total payroll was roughly $1.2 million this past year, which is about average for the league. The NBA's minimum contract for a player with just one year of experience is $1.5 million per year.

🏀 The big picture: Clark's legions of fans have been shocked to learn how little the WNBA's top talent gets paid. But she might be powerful enough to help change that reality.

• Ticket prices for Indiana Fever games are up almost 200%, per The Athletic. Other teams' ticket prices are highest, by far, for games against the Fever.
• Clark is already an astounding driver of TV ratings, merchandising and high-profile sponsorships.

📺 What's next: The WNBA is in the process of negotiating a new media deal, just as droves of new fans will be tuning in.

• The league will need to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with players by 2027 — players' chance to grab a bigger slice of the league's growing pie.

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"We have a moral crisis on our campus," Claire Shipman, a co-chair of Columbia University's board of trustees, said today at a GOP-led hearing on accusations of antisemitism at the school.

• "The last six months on our campus have served as an extreme pressure test," Shipman said. "Our systems clearly have not been equipped to manage the unfolding situation."

State of play: Congressional Republicans have taken aim at elite schools for how they're responding to the war in Gaza, accusing them of letting antisemitism run wild and showing excessive deference to pro-Palestinian protests.

• The presidents of Harvard and Penn resigned after their hearing. Today was Columbia's day on the hot seat.

Columbia has suspended 15 students and has put others on disciplinary probation over their Gaza-related speech or conduct, the school said.

1. 🇺🇦 More than 50,000 Russian troops have died since Ukraine was invaded 26 months ago, BBC reports.
2. 🎧 NPR senior editor Uri Berliner resigned, saying he "cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged." NPR had suspended Berliner for publishing an essay that said the outlet has become too reflexively liberal. Go deeper.
3. 🌧️ A record "rain bomb" dumped more than two years' worth of rain on Dubai — a reminder that existing infrastructure largely isn't able to handle the effects of climate change. Go deeper.

School pickup lines have turned into a real Lord of the Flies situation, replete with shouting matches, lawsuits and even threats of violence, The Wall Street Journal writes in an A-hed feature.

• More parents are driving their kids to and from school, creating long lines and short tempers.

🚗 Police in West Melbourne, Florida, had to remind parents that prolonged goodbyes and drunk driving both hold up the line.

• Some parents are driving through people's yards to try to jump the line. Others have resigned themselves to hundreds of dollars in parking tickets to idle in no-parking zones.
• One innovative school auctioned off prime parking spots — the winning bid was $560 for the school year.

💥 Sometimes it gets heated. Two women in the drop-off line at a South Carolina school pulled guns on each other after one of them nudged her car in front of the others.