Iowa women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark was among the 14 players selected for Team USA’s training camp roster in Cleveland on April 3-5, USA Basketball announced Thursday. Clark will participate in the camp, contingent on Iowa’s progression in the women’s NCAA Tournament. Clark has earned three gold medals with USA Basketball junior national teams, most recently on the 2021 USA Women’s U19 National Team. The Final Four is held in Cleveland concurrently with the USA training camp.
Clark, 22, is the only current collegiate player listed on the 14-team roster and with good reason. She’s almost certainly the top pick in the WNBA Draft next month and her accolades merit strong consideration. She’s the leading scorer in NCAA basketball history — men’s or women’s — with 3,830 points. On Monday, Clark set the NCAA women’s single-season points record with 1,113.
There’s also the hold Clark has in the national landscape. The Hawkeyes set women’s basketball viewership records on six different networks or streaming platforms this year, and Iowa’s first two NCAA Tournament games were by far the most watched for a non-Final Four in the sport’s history. Iowa’s 62-52 win against West Virginia on Monday recorded 5.4 million viewers, blowing out the previous…
