This was Sunday.This is maybe the best thing to ever happen to women's basketball.
Two things I am tired about hearing about Caitlin Clark.
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I saw that! She said that was a gesture their team uses to call a defense cough*bullsh!t*cough….
And the funny thing is that the girl from LSU did this to Clark and so did this girl all in response to Caitlin doing it once…but Caitlin was doing it to her strength coach, not a girl from the other team. The girl she supposedly did it to is good friends with Caitlin and knew she was doing it to her strength coach, so she thinks it’s ridiculous these other people are using against Clark.
So if she breaks Maravich’s all time record, they’re supposed to not say anything about it? Seems like a pretty big deal even if it took her four years to do it. How many other players broke it in four years even with a 3 point line?
Note that it would be a 5th year. This is her 4th.
She needed 8 points to break the record, has 18 in the first quarter. Of course everyone that uses the smaller ball can do that easily (eye roll).
23 points at the end of the first quarter. She’s on a whole different level.
Agree, she's the best women's CBB player I've seen in quite a few years but I really believe Indiana and OSU women go farther in the tournament as both have overall better depth than Iowa
I don’t think Iowa will go very far, their defense stinks.
I remember when Kelly Mazzante surpassed Calbert Cheaney as the all time Big Ten scoring leader (since surpassed by three other women). At the time IU alum Heather Dinich was a CDT staff writer. She wrote articles claiming Mazzante shouldn't be celebrated as the "all time Big Ten basketball scoring leader" because the men's and women's games aren't comparable. Maybe she was simply going to bat for an Indiana player, I don't know.
If Dinich wants to be true to herself, she should use her ESPN platform to tell everyone Clark shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as Maravich.
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Dinich is trash, personal experience from her reporting on my teams down here in Baltimore…
Ask the same media who compares her to Maravich, who holds the record for home runs. It’s probably the guy in Japan who broke Aaron’s record.
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They should share that money with Clark, she is solely responsibly for their increase in revenue.
The problem is once they are sold the resale folks get the $$$'s. If Iowa jacked the prices up that high on their own fans....well then they suck even worse as humans.
Did we celebrate Barry Sanders breaking the all time single season rushing record, surpassing Eric Dickerson?
Bird-like, simply Bird-like at that scoring level with a ton of assists.
Imo, that is an interesting point of comparison, but in no way is it apples-to-apples. I'd like for the media to show her points total and avgs next to the men's NCAA points and avg leader, the NBA all-time leader, the WNBA leader, the Boys' and Girls' HS all-time points leaders, etc. It's all basketball, sure, but at different levels and in some cases, markedly different levels. It's a 'wow' moment, putting it into relative perspective but not a direct comparison.
We do not assume an apples-apples comparison when it comes to college football Div. 1A vs. Div. 1AA. This is at least a little more similar to comparing men's vs women's bball, but far from a real parallel.
She's phenomenal. Fun to watch, great teammate, humble but understands that she is on a different level, "gets it" as well as any 22 year old with some success could hope to, all that. Imo, let her be phenomenal in her sport, be an inspiration for girls and boys, recognize her accomplishments, etc., but let's not try to extrapolate her stats onto other bball leagues where the games are different enough to be easily recognized.
What a whining, cranky, I don't like women sports, ball of fun you are. Jesus help us.
They’re comparing two players that both play D-1 college basketball. No one is saying she’s as good as Maravich, but she’s going to break a record that many others could have broken but didn’t. And when she does break it, Maravich will still be the all time leading scorer for men, so nothing will change.
Bayou Barbie did give a nice congrats . If it wasn’t for the Iowa, USCe and LSU games blowing up last year , women’s basketball would be more on the back burner.This is maybe the best thing to ever happen to women's basketball.
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WSJ 2/17/24 Incredible storyline on CC and NIL
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Almost all records that are broken come under different circumstances and rules. Thats why I don't really get involved in discussions about "Greatest of all time". The individuals in question were simply great in their game at their time.
I agree and the game often changes so that certain records will never be broken (like Cy Young’s wins record). That doesn’t mean the person who holds the record is so much better than anyone that has ever played, just that the game has changed.
It’s really silly. One is playing men’s D-1 basketball, one is playing women’s D-1 basketball. They are not the same thing.
Everybody realizes that, but she broke the women’s all time scoring record and they show where she’s at in relation to Maravich to show what an unbelievable record it is. Don’t you think if there was a women’s professional baseball league and someone hit in 57 games in a row they would say that was longer than DiMaggio’s streak just to put it in perspective?
I know what it’s like to stroke it with small balls, first hand. No one is impressed.
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