The Hyball: It All Happened
Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
Staff Writer
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The Hyball is a weekly basketball column.
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As smart as it probably is to say Caitlin Clark was always going to be inevitable, I choose to believe even the great ones need a little bit of a break here and there. So while this rose certainly could've grown from concrete, a little water and soil didn't hurt either.
In the same way a biracial, thousand-watt smiling, child prodigy, Stanfordian literally nicknamed Tiger winning The Masters in 1997 felt like everything coming together in a perfect way for the world of golf, Caitlin Clark has all of the tools to be all of that for women's basketball; the deep range, the alliterative name, the brilliant passing, the easy-to-remember jersey number, the competitive fire, the sponsorships, the celebrity shout outs, the -- /deep breath -- biggest of all dogs in her. And the narrative itself.
She isn't a UConn Huskie who won three natties in four years in the 2010s. She is an Iowa Hawkeye. This current success is not, historically, expected or regular -- it's generational. If you scan the all-time timeline of both Iowa men's and women's hoops, Final Four runs are, sadly, blips. They don't dot up the board. So while it kinda sucks not to see it regularly, we appreciate it that much more when we do.
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Go Iowa Awesome - The Hyball: It All Happened
The Hyball takes stock of The Caitlin Clark Experience, which somehow keeps getting better and more magical.
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