Dawn Staley praises Caitlin Clark for ‘lifting up our sport’

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Caitlin Clark’s storied college career came to a close on Sunday, and she leaves with no regrets.

Two national championships lost, but scoring records and attendance records won. She finishes with 3,951 career points, and holds the D-I career scoring record, the record for scoring in a single season and is the Big Ten’s all-time assist leader. She also leaves college as the first Division I women’s player to score at least 1,000 points in two different seasons, according to ESPN.

“It’s really hard to win these things. I think I probably know that better than most people by now,” Clark said after the game. To be so close twice, it definitely hurts. But at the same time, we were right there. We battled. We took down some really great teams to get back to this point.”

But she’s not gonna sit and sulk. Instead, she reflected Sunday on the entirety of her college career. 

“Whether it’s the way the fans have supported me, the way I’ve been able to represent my state where I grew up, my family being at every single game — there’s not a regret in my mind of how things went,” Clark said. “I’ll be able to sleep every night even though I never won a national championship.

“I don’t sit and sulk about the…

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