Unlike last March, Iowa star Caitlin Clark hasn’t found her touch since breaking Pete Maravich’s all-time scoring record in the regular-season finale.
In a year filled with record TV ratings, Iowa’s first two NCAA Tournament games were the most-watched all time in their respective rounds.
Millions are tuning in for the first time.
They could be 5 or 95.
They have heard so much about Caitlin Clark, so much more than any female basketball player before.
From TV.
From headlines.
From friends.
She is like no one the sport has ever seen.
She is the greatest scorer in Division I history, the iconic shooter whose logo 3s are imitated across the country.
And perhaps, soon, the bandwagon will see what the hype is all about.
Unlike last March— when Clark set the NCAA Tournament scoring mark to send Iowa to its first national championship game — the Hawkeyes superstar hasn’t found her touch since breaking Pete Maravich’s all-time scoring record in the regular-season finale.
In the past five games, Clark is shooting 39.8 percent from the field and 29.2 percent on 3-pointers — compared with 46.3 percent from the field and 37.8 percent from 3 in four seasons at Iowa — while committing 6.2 turnovers per game.
There is the pressure to perform in the final games of her collegiate career, to live up to her legacy, to carry a state she put on the map and will disappear back into the cornfields in a few weeks.
