The 2nd greatest woman’s b-ball player of all time??

[CyberJJ]

Iowa had one 5 star player on its team in the 2024 championship game.

SC had 10 5 star recruits including recruits and transfers.

LSU was the consensus pre-season #1 ranked team in the nation with returnees and transfers last year.

USC, UCLA, UConn were loaded with All Americas. Iowa, with Caitlin was highly ranked, but because of her. I don't think it possible to quantify how much a single player, and to be fair, how a team was able to be competitive in that stratosphere. And to dispute the one-shot argument, she did for 2 years.

I think you may have just made the best case for coach of the year.

 

[longliveCS40]

Caitlin is the all-time leading scorer in college -- there is much more to being the greatest player of all time than scoring. Most impactful in terms of creating fan interest, yes -- but greatest player of all time, no. Had she been of teams with more talent like some of the UCONN teams she would not have had the stats she had at Iowa.

The fact she wasn't on a team like UConn and still carried her school to 2 title games is part of what makes her the goat.

And it isn't just the scoring. It's the passing and all around game she had in college. Never before has someone had that level of game in women's college basketball.

 

[moondog24]

The fact she wasn't on a team like UConn and still carried her school to 2 title games is part of what makes her the goat.

And it isn't just the scoring. It's the passing and all around game she had in college. Never before has someone had that level of game in women's college basketball.

Clark’s a good scorer and passer but below average on defense. Not really her fault as defense, especially man to man defense was not stressed at Iowa. Lisa needed Clark to focus on offense. That’s what made Jordan so good, he was the best player on the court at both ends.

 

[longliveCS40]

Clark’s a good scorer and passer but below average on defense. Not really her fault as defense, especially man to man defense was not stressed at Iowa. Lisa needed Clark to focus on offense. That’s what made Jordan so good, he was the best player on the court at both ends.

So you're arguing that she needed to be a better defender to be the women's college basketball GOAT? Also, she was fine on defense. Much of the issue was poor team defense, not individual.

If you are arguing she isn't the college GOAT, please let us know who you think is and why.

 

[ChiPackHawk]

Nancy Lieberman and Cheryl Miller should be at the top of any list and you can go from there.

 

[AWS1022]

Nancy Lieberman and Cheryl Miller should be at the top of any list and you can go from there.

They were playing against hairdressers and waitresses. If you go back that far, you’re talking about a horrible talent pool overall.

 

[ZachJump]

Much of the issue was poor team defense, not individual.

Stats will not back this up…but I will always argue that Iowa was actually a very good defensive team when they needed to be.

Go back and watch the end of close games last year…Iowa won games by suddenly becoming this shut down defense team.

The rest of the time it was more about style of play…if you want to play fast like Iowa you cannot be a shut down defense during the bulk of the game. If you try to be a shut down defense you will slow the game down and that just was not going to be good for Iowa.

 

[ZachJump]

They were playing against hairdressers and waitresses. If you go back that far, you’re talking about a horrible talent pool overall.

Damn…Vivian couldn’t beat a team of hairdressers?

Iowa sucks.