As was once broadly anticipated for months, the Indiana Fever made famous person guard Caitlin Clark of Iowa the No. 1 total pick out within the 2024 WNBA Draft on Monday in New York.
Clark, whose school profession ended previous this month with a loss within the nationwide championship recreation to top-seeded South Carolina, completed her tenure at Iowa via shattering information in scoring and viewership for ladies’s school basketball.
The 22-year-old from West Des Moines, Iowa, scored 3,951 issues in her 4 seasons taking part in for the Hawkeyes, making her the all time main scorer in all of Department I school basketball, males or girls.
Clark led the country in scoring and passing this season with 31.6 issues and eight.9 assists according to recreation as she helped Iowa win its 3rd consecutive Giant Ten match identify and led the Hawkeyes to the nationwide identify recreation for the second one 12 months in a row. Iowa’s loss to South Carolina drew 18.7 million audience, making it the most-watched girls’s basketball recreation on file.
A 3-time Giant Ten Participant of the 12 months, Clark was once the consensus Nationwide Participant of the 12 months this season for the second one 12 months in a row.
It’s the second one directly season the Fever had the No. 1 total pick out. Clark might be paired with remaining 12 months’s variety—the 2022 Nationwide Participant of the 12 months—in South Carolina product Aliyah Boston. The 6-foot-5 ahead received the WNBA Rookie of the 12 months award after averaging 14.5 issues, 8.4 rebounds and a pair of.2 assists according to recreation remaining season as Indiana went 13-27. Indiana hasn’t made the playoffs since 2016.
There may be an opportunity that Clark and Boston group up this summer season on the Paris Olympics at the U.S. Nationwide Group.
