Caitlin Clark is headed to Indianapolis. In a widely-expected transfer, the Indiana Fever used the highest general choose within the 2024 WNBA Draft to pick Clark, the famous person guard from the College of Iowa who’s making the soar to the W after being named the nationwide participant of the 12 months in back-to-back seasons.
Clark is becoming a member of the Fever following a 2023-24 marketing campaign by which she rewrote the NCAA report e book. She first grew to become the all-time Division I chief in scoring after breaking a report set by Las Vegas Aces star and former Washington Huskies standout Kelsey Plum, then handed Lynette Woodward’s ladies’s main faculty scoring report, and eventually surpassed “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s all-time NCAA scoring report for males’s or ladies’s basketball.
On the 12 months, Clark averaged 31.6 factors, 8.9 assists, 7.4 rebounds, and 1.7 steals in 34.8 minutes per sport for the Hawkeyes whereas capturing 45.5 p.c from the sphere and 37.8 p.c from behind the three-point line. She was named a unanimous first-team All-American and received the Naismith and Wood Awards for the second season in a row, and led Iowa to its second consecutive berth within the nationwide championship sport, the place the workforce fell to South Carolina.
Thought of one of many largest stars within the historical past of school basketball, Clark will be part of a Fever workforce that has not made the postseason since 2016 however has a remarkably vivid future. After three consecutive seasons of successful single-digit video games, Indiana went 13-27 final 12 months behind a pair of All-Stars. Clark will companion considered one of them, Kelsey Mitchell, within the backcourt, whereas final 12 months’s No. 1 general choose, Aliyah Boston, begins within the frontcourt. Boston is the reigning unanimous WNBA Rookie of the 12 months, and whereas it is a stacked draft class, Clark will look to perform the identical factor.
