Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark may just be in her sophomore year in the WNBA, but she is already considered one of the greatest Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball stars ever. The school has even retired her No. 2 jersey after she went to the WNBA. However, one thing she has not done in her collegiate career is deliver a national title to Iowa.
In 2023, they reached the finals, only to lose to Angel Reese and the LSU Tigers. A year later, in 2024, they reached the finals again, but fell to Dawn Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks. She seldom talks about those two second-place runs, but she did open up about it during an interview with WNBA great Sue Bird in her “Bird’s Eye View” podcast.
“Yeah, I would have loved to win one of them, but honestly, two of my most fun nights in college were after losing a national championship, like we had just as much fun,” she said. “I mean, yes we were sad, I would have loved to win one of them.”
“But honestly, people celebrated us just as much as if we won. We didn’t win, obviously, but when people just constantly talking about that, just giving them another thing to talk about, like ‘awww, they didn’t win,” like okay, we were the University of Iowa, nobody believed in us.”
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She then went on to give a moniker to her Iowa team that won back-to-back second place in the NCAA women’s national championship tournament:
“We make jokes about it, like we’re the best second place team that’s ever been,” she said.
Clark would go on to enter the NBA draft after failing to win the national championship for a second time in a row. She would be drafted No. 1 overall by the Indiana Fever and was overwhelmingly voted into the All-Star Game during her rookie year.
Caitlin Clark Expected To Miss Showdown vs. Chicago Sky as Fever Continue Its Injury Woes
As for her NBA career, Caitlin Clark is still out with an injury in her right groin. She has already missed nine straight games, and this is happening in a rather unfortunate time for the Indiana Fever, as it lost two more players to injury.
Clark is set to miss another game, this time at home against rivals Chicago Sky, which itself is struggling from injuries to its star players. Sydney Colson and Aari McDonald are expected to miss the rest of the season after their blowout loss to the Phoenix Mercury. The final score during that game was 95-60.
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