Caitlin Clark enters her final Big Ten tournament hoping to lead Iowa to its third consecutive title. In 2022, the Hawkeyes won the tournament at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Last year, Iowa won the championship at Target Center in Minneapolis, site of this season’s tournament.
The senior guard’s focus is fully on Iowa. But in a little more than five weeks, Gainbridge will become Clark’s home arena if she is picked No. 1 as expected by the Indiana Fever in the WNBA draft. The Fever will visit Target Center — where Clark, who was born in West Des Moines, Iowa, attended WNBA games as a child — for the first of three regular-season contests on July 14.
So while Clark keeps her mind on the business at hand in making the most of her final college postseason, we’re looking ahead to what is coming soon in her professional career. Like all WNBA rookies, Clark will experience a whirlwind of transition over the next few months.
How will she deal with the move to the WNBA? What aspects of the professional game might take the most time for her to…
