Caitlin Clark, a star player for the Iowa Hawkeyes, leaves college without winning the final game of the season but leaves a lasting impact on women's college basketball.
CLEVELAND — And then it was over. Confetti fell. At 5:10 p.m. Sunday, inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Caitlin Clark was not at the center of the basketball world but maybe 10 steps away.. She stood behind her coaches, waiting to shake hands. She was, in that moment, a living artifact — a breathing, sighing reason for so much change. She just would have to leave college without winning the final game of a season.
“The WNBA getting it right,” Candace Parker, an all-time great, said Sunday. “I think that’s the next thing. So whatever that means.”“You got three hours?” she asked with a laugh. “I want to stop the conversation that your heyday is in college. I hope that stops with this generation.” This women’s basketball boom has been driven by stars, with Clark at the forefront. Parker wants the next chapter to be defined by rivalries. She wants ESPN to find a prime-time slot when Clark and Reese first match up in the WNBA. It shouldn’t matter what jerseys they’re wearing — just like Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson transcended the 1979 title game between Indiana State and Michigan State.
“What you saw today was two really special storylines play out,” Bird said after Sunday’s title game. “... You had on one side Iowa with Caitlin, who has obviously had such an impact on the game. The conversations around her — does she need to win to be a GOAT? — and just following her career and all the records she has broken. So watching this team that felt like it had some destiny connected to them — getting to the final even felt like destiny — you see that play out.
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