During her four-year college career at Iowa, Caitlin Clark started all 139 games and averaged 28.4 points, 7.1 rebounds, 8.2 assists, 1.5 steals and 3.9 treys while shooting 46% from the field, 37% from downtown and 85% from the line. As a freshman, she averaged 26.6 points, 5.9 rebounds, 7.1 assists, 1.3 steals and 3.9 treys!
Name an award and you best believe that she won it. She became must-see tv with her Stephen Curry-esque hoists from deep and elite passing ability. She literally changed the women’s collegiate game, leading to TV viewership and attendance records.
The Caitlin Clark experience was reminiscent of the pre-NBA LeBron James one. And like LeBron, Caitlin lived up to the hype—and then some.
In 40 games during her WNBA rookie season, Clark averaged 19.2 points, 5.7 rebounds, 8.4 assists, 1.3 steals, 0.7 blocks and 3.1 treys while shooting 41% from the field, 34% from downtown and 90% from the line.
She had a laughable game with 29 points, 13 assists, five rebounds, five steals, five treys and three blocks while shooting 50% from the field, 56% from downtown and 90% from the line.
The 769 total points is a WNBA rookie record. The 19.2-point average is the sixth-best in WNBA rookie history. Both the 337 total assists and 8.4 per game are rookie records.
Clark helped TV viewership spike to more than 54 million across all the various platform and game attendance soared to decade-highs. Per CNBC, there were 45 sellouts in 2023. This season, there were 154.
When it was all said and done, Clark silenced all her haters and collected all the hardware, including the AP Rookie of the Year award.
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