Caitlin Clark may be the greatest women’s basketball player of all time, but there’s another former Iowa athlete who thinks he can beat her in a game of one-on-one.
Cooper DeJean, the former Iowa cornerback and one of the top-rated prospects in this year’s NFL Draft, said that he was asked by NFL teams on numerous occasions during the combine if he could beat Clark in a game of hoops.
“I said that I think I could win,” DeJean said Tuesday in an interview with CBS Sports.
DeJean’s answer caught me off guard, and he could tell.
“You don’t think I can win?” he asked, which I responded by reminding him that Clark, the former Iowa Hawkeyes superstar and the Indiana Fever’s No. 1 overall draft pick, is widely considered to be the greatest women’s basketball player ever. In DeJean’s defense, he does have a hoops background. In high school, he was a three-time letter winner at point guard.
“She’d definitely score on me, for sure, but I think I could pull it off,” said DeJean, who added that Clark’s shooting prowess would be his biggest challenge. “It would be close, though. … She can shoot from anywhere, I think.”
DeJean’s confidence against Clark is no knock against Clark, but more of an…
