caitlin clark News - MinnesotaSportsFan https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/tag/caitlin-clark/ Minnesota sports, but different Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:28:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,height=32,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-cropped-MSF-favicon-1.jpg caitlin clark News - MinnesotaSportsFan https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/tag/caitlin-clark/ 32 32 New Team USA Coach Looking to Right Cheryl Reeve’s Wrongs https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-lynx/kara-lawson-caitlin-clark-addition-team-usa-roster-cheryl-reeve-out/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:31:03 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=72995 There are few people connected to modern day women’s basketball who have been more influential on the sport than than Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve. However, she may have overstayed her welcome as coach of Team USA last year, when she left Caitlin Clark off the Olympic roster.

The next competition of note for Team USA women’s basketball is the 2026 FIBA World Cup, which is set to tip-off place 10 months from now, in September 2026.

Kara Lawson invites Caitlin Clark to Team USA

Fortunately for Team USA fans, Reeve is no longer coaching the women’s national team, and her successor — Duke head coach Kara Lawson — who she was named to lead Team USA a couple of months ago. And one of her first acts as new head coach, is to right Reeve’s most egregious wrong.

Because when camp opens for Team USA in Durham next month, Caitlin Clark will be in the house, along with fellow rising young superstars Paige Bueckers, Angel Reese and JuJu Watkins..

Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, Angel Reese and JuJu Watkins will be among the 10 players making their USA Basketball senior national team camp debuts next month, when the storied basketball program hosts a training camp at Duke University from Dec. 12-14.

ESPN

Last WNBA season, Clark — who won Rookie of the year in 2024 — watched as her Indiana Fever lost in the WNBA Finals, despite her being injured for much of the season and all of the postseason. Caitlin Year played in just 13 games in 2025.

Minnesota native, 2025 1st overall pick, and reigning Rookie of the Year winner Paige Bueckers will get her first shot at the Team USA roster, as well, as will Angel Reese and Juju Watkins.

MN Lynx building towards 2026

The Minnesota Lynx finished 2025 with a 34-10 record, which was the best record in the WNBA. They have won the Western Conference each of the past two seasons, but have not claimed a Finals trophy to show for it.

Thankfully for Minnesota, the Lynx landed the second overall pick in the upcoming 2026 NBA Draft. Azzi Fudd (Iowa State), Awa Fam (Spain), Olivia Miles (TCU), Lauren Betts (UCLA), and Flau’jae Johnson (LSU) are among the top prospects.

In 2026, the MN Lynx will look to rebound from an unceremonious playoff exit in 202, which ended with Reeve being suspended after attacking officials in on of the final games of the year, after superstar Napheesa Collier was dropped to the ground on a late game steal that sent the HOF PoBO off her rocker.

In the days that followed, Minnesota’s MVP-contender spoke out against the league and their guidance for referees. Unfortunately, it did not result in another chance to win playoff games.

]]> Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:28:55 +0000 Minnesota Lynx Cheryl Reeve’s KFAN Absence Stems From Refusal to Discuss Caitlin Clark Snub https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-lynx/cheryl-reeve-kfan-absence-caitlin-clark/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:12:55 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=66084 At 24-5, the Minnesota Lynx are one of the best teams in the WNBA this season, under 15-year head coach Cheryl Reeve. But the long tenured and highly decorated Reeve is much more than just a head coach for the Lynx.

The 58-year-old has also been Minnesota’s president of basketball operations since 2024 and head coach of the USA National Women’s Basketball Team since 2021.

MN Lynx PoBO no fan of new-era female basketball stars

Her accomplishments, both at the WNBA and international levels (more on those below), haven’t shielded her from recent criticisms, however, specifically surrounding her unwillingness to accept and help prop up the younger generation of female basketball stars, Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, in order to help grow the game.

In 2024, Reeve intentionally (and obviously) avoided drafting Angel Reese with the No. 7 overall pick in the WNBA Draft. Reese has since made two-straight All-Star game appearances and currently leads the WNBA in rebounds. The “big” Minnesota chose over Reese, Alissa Pili, was recently cut from the Lynx’ roster.

WNBA: Minnesota Lynx head coach and president of basketball operations, Cheryl Reeve
Credit: Bruce Kluckhohn-Imagn Images

Reeve’s more egregious decision last summer, though, came when she helped conspire with the most influential voices in women’s basketball to keep young phenom Caitlin Clark off the 2024 Team USA Olympic roster.

Both before and after the Olympics, Reeve has made it painfully obvious how much she dislikes fielding questions surrounding Clark’s absence last summer… or really, talking about Caitlin at all.

Of course, if you snubbed the most popular female basketball player of all-time for no good reason, undoubtedly stunting the growth of a sport ready to blow up at levels unimaginable prior to Clark’s arrival, I doubt you’d enjoy talking publicly about it either.

Cheryl Reeve’s absence from KFAN due to her refusal to talk about Caitlin Clark

But this week, radio host Dan Barreiro (KFAN) confirmed that Caitlin Clark is indeed the reason Minnesota’s PoBO has been absent from hands down the most popular drivetime sports radio show in Minnesota.

According to what Barreiro told listeners Monday, that Reeve’s year-long break from KFAN stems back to her refusal to talk about Clark’s Team USA snub, prior to the Paris Games. From the sounds of it, Dan and Cheryl — who chatted semi-regularly leading up to that point — haven’t communicated since.

“605 Guy writes, [are you too hard on Cheryl] Reeve that she’ll no longer come on your show?’

Well, it’s a little more complicated than that, but it is true that the, I’d say ‘battle’ but that’s the wrong word. The challenge goes back to the last time we were trying to get Reeve on.

[It] was before the Olympics and I said, “Look, um, this doesn’t have to be the the the the meat of our conversation, but I’m going to have to ask you about that whole [Caitlin Clark] deal.’

This was via DMing or texting, whatever. And she said, ‘I can’t talk about that.’ So then, I don’t even know if I answered her, but at that point I can’t in my right mind [do the interview].

I think I even said ‘you’re pretty good at deflecting, I’m not going to like spend 20 minutes on it, but you’ve got to understand I can’t ignore it. It’s too big a story at this point.’ And so this whole thing gets kind of silly.”

Dan Barreiro – KFAN Radio

After serving as the Minnesota Lynx’ general manager from 2018-2022, she was named president of basketball operations last offseason, giving her full control of the four-time champion organization that she helped build from the ground up, starting in 2010.

Cheryl Reeve has been running from Caitlin Clark discussions since beginning

In 2021, Cheryl’s success in Minnesota landed her the head coaching job with Team USA, which has continued its complete and utter domination of international women’s basketball during her Team USA head coaching tenure (23-0), which includes a Gold Medal during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Related: Minnesota Lynx Roster Changes Amidst Title Run

When Clark was first snubbed by Team USA, some (including Reeve) tried to defend the decision as “basketball-related”. But even if you submit to the idea that Caitlin wasn’t one of the best 15 female basketball players in the world when rosters were finalized, it’s impossible to argue against the fact that having her on the team would have done wonders for fan interest during the games.

But instead of being one of the summer’s most popular and followed events, which it undoubtedly would have had Caitlin Clark been invited to Paris, women’s basketball was left on the 2024 Olympic backburner, Gold Medal and all… just like it always has been.

]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:12:58 +0000 Minnesota Lynx Final Team USA Roster Proves Cheryl Reeve Hates Caitlin Clark More Than She Loves Women’s Basketball https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-lynx/minnesota-lynx-news/cheryl-reeve-team-usa-caitlin-clark/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 22:51:59 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=51872 Caitlin Clark is possibly the biggest name in all of sports right now. It’s probably the first time in my 35 year history on this earth where I can remember a female athlete taking over the sports world to the degree she has.

Of course, female athletes have had their moments. But most of them have come from Olympic sports like gymnastics, figure skating, swimming and track. Women’s basketball had Maya Moore, Sheryl Swoopes and Lisa Leslie, names that lifted the female game to new heights during their time.

Caitlin Clark has star power that women’s sports has never seen before

Locally, we saw that with Lindsay Whalen, especially while she was leading the University of Minnesota to a Final Four back in 2004. But never, ever, has women’s sports seen an athlete that raises an entire sport… hell, an entire gender of athletes like Caitlin Clark has.

There is no way to calculate how many little girls around the world will now try basketball because of Clark. Many of which will fall in love with the game, but only because they first fell in love with her. Caitlin Clark is pretty much the Taylor Swift of the women’s basketball world.

For example, the 0-12 Washington Mystics had to move their game vs Clark’s Indiana Fever this week from a 4,000 seat arena to a 20,000 seat arena, to help fill demand for tickets. The extra 16,000 seats sold out in 30 minutes.

How did Clark payoff the 20,000 people in attendance (a 17-year WNBA record) who were all there to see her? Oh, she put up 30 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals. The Fever won 85-83.

Related: Paige Bueckers Chose UConn Over Being MN’s Caitlin Clark… But Don’t Tell That to the Internet

But the real winners were the Mystics, Capital One Arena and the WNBA, for hosting possibly the largest organic revenue generating regular season game in league history. It’s the type of thing that doesn’t happen in any sport for any player. Men, women… it doesn’t matter. That sort of fanfare is unheard of.

But this sort of thing isn’t even surprising anymore. Whenever Caitlin Clark is involved, history is going to be made and an unhinged amount of interest is going to be generated. And when there is unhinged amounts of interest being generated, the dollar signs follow, and that is undoubtedly the case with Clark.

Cheryl Reeve leaves Caitlin Clark off Team USA roster

So what was much more surprising than Clark setting another attendance record, was when news started breaking that she was going to be left of the 2024 Team USA women’s basketball Olympic roster, which became official on Saturday.

That’s right, women’s basketball, whose leaders have consistently begged, scolded and downright guilted sports fans into thinking they didn’t care enough. Those same people who demand that NBA owners invest more money into the WNBA, who expect TV networks to put their games in primetime even though nobody watches…

Those same people are now choosing an Olympic backseat to just about every other sport on the 2024 Paris roster. They had a chance to lead Olympic coverage in this country and exponentially grow the game they claim to love so much, at an international level.

They could have had the cameras and paparazzi. The massive crowds of fans and media members crowding their team bus every time it stopped somewhere. They could have had the lines of little girls begging for autographs and crying as they walked by. Instead, they made the conscious decision to be mostly non-existent while in France later this summer.

Why? Jealousy, envy, bias… take your pick. While the WNBA should be welcoming Caitlin Clark into their league with open arms, they have turned a cold shoulder to their first real superstar. Barstool founder, Dave Portnoy, pretty much nailed it on Saturday, after hearing the news (transcript below).

“These women, and I love women, I’m a pro woman guy, [but] they complain and they cry about equal rights, equal wages, blah blah blah blah. Hey dummies, for the first time in the history of basketball, you have arguably a player who is the most popular player in the world. You could argue, right now, Caitlin Clark is the most talked about, discussed, most popular, most puts asses in the seats, single basketball player in the world. You could argue that.”

“And you leave her off the Olympics team? It’s not only a showcase for her, it’s for the sport and the other WNBA players who are on this team. How dumb, how brain dead, how idiotic do the people running this thing have to be? It’s one thing after another with her. The business part of my brain is like… These people, whoever it is, I don’t ever want to hear you complain about flying commercial or not getting salaries or this that. You’re too dumb, you’re too dumb, you have a cash cow.”

“Women’s basketball would be like the number one thing people watch [during the Olympics], with Caitlin Clark. As it is, I would rather watch grass grow, I’d rather watch paint dry, I’d rather watch dirt just be moved around. If she’s there, it’s appointment TV. You people, whoever did this, take your brain, put it in a museum and study it for how dumb you are.”

Dave Portnoy on Caitlin Clark being left off the Team USA women’s basketball roster

Current players are targeting Clark during games and in press conferences. Former players are talking down to those who bring her up, as the next great in women’s basketball. Oh, and opposing coaches might be the worst of all. For whatever reason, it seems most of the WNBA sees Clark as a threat instead of the ticket, which makes no sense.

And leading that anti-Clark cause is Minnesota Lynx president of basketball operations and head coach, Cheryl Reeve, who moonlights as Team USA head coach and their main talent evaluator. Here’s what she tweeted during the WNBA preseason, after the league social media account dare spotlight Clark’s game instead of the Lynx.

Read More: Lynx Head Coach Cheryl Reeve Mad at WNBA for Spotlighting Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever

Not convinced? Take the above tweet however you want. Reeve has made it very clear how she feels about the Caitlin Clark craze more than once.

The most laughable part about this is that Reeve has been one of the lead drum beaters and guilt trippers, calling for more attention to be paid to women’s basketball (see the bottom of this article). No matter the cost.

Now, here is an opportunity to grow the women’s game at a level the sport has never seen before. More money, more popularity, it’s literally sitting there, one common sense decision away. And what does Reeve do? SHE says no, instead choosing personal vendettas over growing the game she claims to love so much. It’s hypocrisy at the highest level.

Reeve won’t be the only one who takes blame for leaving Clark off Team USA. She is aided by an Olympic committee that is made up of those who have competed against Clark. No Hawkeye or Fever coaches are included on the Team USA Olympic committee or staff.

South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley, whose team beat Iowa in the National Championship this season, along with former Lynx star (now LSU assistant) Seimone Augustus and Connecticut Sun president Jennifer Rizzotti are among those with the most pull. But Cheryl Reeve, as head coach and a WNBA President of Basketball Operations, has final say.

Now, you can listen to what some WNBA writers are echoing, which are the excuses that Reeve and Team USA officials are making. They’re saying that Clark isn’t good enough to be on the 2024 Team USA roster, that she has to wait her turn. Or, my personal favorite, that she wouldn’t get enough playing time to make her rabid fanbase happy…

But all of that is nonsense. There is no logical reason not to have Clark on that roster. Team USA women haven’t lost an Olympic game since 1992. They are 70-3 in their history and haven’t lost a FIBA World Cup matchup since 2006. They pretty much never lose and beat most teams by 50 points.

International women’s basketball is still closer to what it was like in the 1990s for men’s basketball, back when The Dream Team faced other countries who were just starting to find their footing in the basketball world.

Related: Psst… Caitlin Clark is a Closet Minnesota Lynx Fan

So if you think keeping Caitlin Clark, one of the greatest young players in league history, off the roster may have been the difference between winning and losing for the US this summer, then you are kidding yourself.

This happened because the people leading the team and women’s basketball in the year 2024 — especially Minnesota Lynx and Team USA head decision maker, Cheryl Reeve — are giving into their own jealousy, envy and bias, instead of leaning into growth and business. Dumb.

So where is this energy at, Cheryl? Funny, we don’t see a lot of these tweets anymore for some reason…

]]> Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:25:54 +0000 Minnesota Lynx News Minnesota Lynx Lynx Head Coach Cheryl Reeve Mad at WNBA for Spotlighting Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-lynx/minnesota-lynx-cheryl-reeve-angry-tweet-caitlin-clark/ Sat, 04 May 2024 01:28:21 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=50402 Cheryl Reeve and the Minnesota Lynx are tipping their exhibition season off tonight against the Chicago Sky, but you wouldn’t know it from the WNBA’s social media feed, which chose to highlight the Indiana Fever versus Dallas Wings in Caitlin Clark’s preseason debut instead.

Cheryl Reeve mad at Caitlyn Clark?

So, Reeve responded by quote tweeting information about the Lynx’s preseason debut. Yet, as Reeve pointed out, fans aren’t even able to watch the Lynx start their season, unless they’re at the Target Center.

Our favorite part of the tweet was Reeve perhaps mocking the tweet’s words, “Let’s start this season off right,” followed by a checkmark. As you may or may not have noticed, Reeve ended her message with a very similar tone, “…as we start the season off right,” followed by that same green checkmark.

Was Reeve upset that the WNBA’s official social media page chose to omit the Lynx from their mentions? Yes, she clearly was. Considering there are just two games on today’s schedule, did Cheryl not expect that at least one of those games would be Caitlyn Clark?

Related: Timberwolves Ownership War Rages On After Unproductive Mediation Session

It may be difficult for Reeve and other WNBA players/coaches to wrap their brains around it but Caitlyn Clark is going to make woman in the NBA a lot more money than they are making today. Cheryl and others should embrace that, not push it away.

]]> Fri, 03 May 2024 23:00:18 +0000 Minnesota Lynx Psst… Caitlin Clark is a Closet Minnesota Lynx Fan https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-lynx/minnesota-lynx-news/2024-minnesota-lynx-caitlin-clark-closet-fan/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:26:10 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=49925 The Minnesota Lynx have a lot of fans scattered across the globe, and the newest No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA Draft is reportedly one of them. According to the former Iowa basketball legend herself, Caitlin Clark grew up “loving the Minnesota Lynx.” Join the club, right?

Caitlin Clark: Huge Minnesota Lynx Fan

While Clark’s introductory press conference with the Indiana Fever basketball media featured plenty of talk about her future and her admiration for the team’s current and past stars, she also couldn’t help but reveal her passion for the Lynx.

“I grew up loving the Minnesota Lynx. I probably shouldn’t say that anymore. That was obviously the closest WNBA team from where I grew up. Minneapolis was four hours from my house and obviously they had a dynasty there that was obviously really easy to cheer for.”

Caitlin Clark on being a Minnesota Lynx fan

With four WNBA Championships to their name, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Clark was drawn to the Lynx at an early age.

Related: Paige Bueckers Chose UConn Over Being MN’s Caitlin Clark… But Don’t Tell That to the Internet

Clark has also highlighted her respect for former Lynx legend Maya Moore, whom she gave a shoutout to during her recent appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Here’s Clark getting a chance to meet her childhood idol back in March.

She’s never been shy about being a big fan of Moore’s throughout her childhood, even witnessing when her new team, the Fever, defeated the Lynx in the 2012 WNBA Finals. While she was only 10 years old at the time, it’s clear the Lynx left a lasting impact on the basketball icon.

Clark will get her first chance to go toe-to-toe with her former favorite team on July 14, when the Fever visit Minnesota to battle the Lynx on ESPN. Clark will play Minnesota two more times during the 2024 WNBA season.

Related: Caitlin Clark Shows Off Her Non-Basketball Talents, And Fans Can’t Get Enough

]]> Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:38:13 +0000 Minnesota Lynx News Minnesota Lynx Paige Bueckers Chose UConn Over Being MN’s Caitlin Clark… But Don’t Tell That to the Internet https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/gophers-basketball/2024-gophers-wbb-paige-bueckers-minnesota-caitlin-clark/ Mon, 08 Apr 2024 02:56:13 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=49568 I knew nothing something bad might happen if I started watching women’s basketball… and I was 100% wrong. Because I watched the Iowa Hawkeyes vs Connecticut Huskies the other night and it led to a tweet that has reached over 1 million views and counting.

How did I do that, you ask? Well, it all started with an illegal screen set by a lady UConn Huskie, late in the women’s final four matchup mentioned above. Yes it was an illegal screen. An obvious illegal screen. Her legs were still moving and she stuck her elbow out. Obvious offensive foul.

The rest of Minnesota basketball twitter, however, did not agree at the time. Why, you ask? It looks pretty clearn and obvious, right? Why would they refuse to see what was so obvious during a game between Iowa and UConn? Well, because it ruined an opportunity for Hopkins’ own, Paige Bueckers, to hit a last-second game-winning shot.

Bueckers was a high school girls basketball phenom from the 2020 class, ranked as the No. 1 overall recruit in the entire country, at the time. No doubt the type of talent that could have put the Minnesota Gophers women’s basketball program back on the national map all by herself. A talent that, dare I say, could have brought the same type of Caitlin Clark phenom atmosphere to Dinkytown?

Paige Bueckers chose UConn over Minnesota… but don’t say it out loud.

But… that’s not what happened. Bueckers, like most other young basketball phenoms from this state, chose to play elsewhere, UConn, in here case. Shortly thereafter, following 20-wins in five of seven seasons between 2013 and 2019, the University of Minnesota women’s basketball program cratered. Good for her, you might say. Smart move, got out just at the right time, right?

I don’t necessarily disagree. Nonetheless, I used Twitter to remind people that Paige could have tried to do for for Minnesota what Caitlin Clark did for Iowa. Raise it to places it had never been before. Perfectly reasonable take, given the player Bueckers is.

Well… Twitter lost its mind.

Go ahead, dive into that mess… you won’t regret it. And let’s just be clear. I do not think Paige should have based her decision on anything other than what she wanted. This is America, after all. And the best part about living in this country is that you can make choices that are best for you, and feel good about them. Paige is going to be a top-5 draft pick, even after an injury-riddled college career. Things seem to have worked out just fine.

Why would I be a fan of UConn’s Paige Bueckers?

But that freedom works the other way, too. If you’re a Minnesota athlete who chooses to cold-shoulder the Gophers and play your college ball elsewhere, I won’t be cheering for you. Because, believe it or not, my Minnesota sports fandom is not based on former MN high school athletes.

Related: Ben Johnson on Hot Seat? Mark Coyle Angry Gophers Missed NCAA Tournament Again

Not Paige, or Chet Holmgren, Jalen Suggs… the Jones’ brothers from Apple Valley (except while Tyus played for the Wolves, that was fun). Want to know why? Because I am not a UConn fan, or Gonzaga fan, or Duke fan. By some people’s logic, I should be a huge Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball fan, since most of their team is from Lakeville.

But I’m not. I am a Minnesota sports fan ONLY. And if that hurts other Minnesota sports fans’ feelings… I guess they’ll have to get over it? Maybe don’t follow me on Twitter, if it bothers them that much? Because I’m obviously not interested in changing.

Anyway, happy Sunday to everyone except former D1 MN high school athletes who chose to play somewhere other than Dinkytown.

]]> Sun, 07 Apr 2024 21:56:16 +0000 Minnesota Gophers Basketball New Camera Angle Shows Caitlin Clark Was Not Bulldozed, She Flopped https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/gophers-basketball/new-camera-angle-caitlin-clark-flop/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:20:26 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=46954 In 2024, it’s difficult to hide the truth, especially in big public events that are televised to a national audience with multiple different camera angles, not to mention venue security cameras and cell phones… etc. But Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball star, Caitlin Clark, almost pulled it off the other night.

Related: U of M Plans to Renovate Williams Arena; New Gophers Basketball Venue Unlikely

Iowa was upset on the road at Ohio State and a minor court storm took place afterwards, one that ended with a head-on collision between Clark and a random Buckeyes fan. In the video that originally went viral, Caitlin looks like she is completely bulldozed, a surprise collision that would probably send anyone to the ground.

Looks pretty ugly, right? From this angle, it looks like she got hit by a golf cart she didn’t see coming. Predictably, we immediately saw a segment of fans (and non-fans) calling for a strict ban on court and field storming in college athletics.

In the days that followed, teeth were mashed, articles written, videos made and even a full-length Netflix docuseries in the works (probably). How can we possibly stop this atrocity from happening in the future…

Did Caitlin Clark Flop?

But on Monday, more camera angles of the controversial collision have come to light and (shocker) they paint a much different picture of what happened in the seconds after the buzzer went off in Columbus Saturday afternoon.

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Yup, it was a flop. This entire thing, all the outrage, all the attention… for a flop. The above angle makes it undeniably clear that, at the least, Clark was able to brace for contact way earlier than what we had thought. In fact, it was the fan who got the worst part of the collision.

Poor girl was taking a selfie video and didn’t see Clark coming until contact had already been made. She, like Clark, crumpled to the floor. But unlike the Iowa superstar, Ohio State’s court storming fan dusted herself off, got back up and resumed her previous activities. She didn’t lay on the floor rhything in (fake) pain or have a press conference afterwards that got the entire sports world fearing for her safety

I’m not in the camp that thinks a frustrated Caitlin Clark was looking for a court stormer to lay out in frustration. I think it’s undeniable, however, that her fall to the ground and the circus show that followed were… let’s say… over-exaggerated.

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