Sheryl Swoopes said that she has spoken to Iowa guard Caitlin Clark — in a conversation facilitated by LSU’s Angel Reese — to address her controversial comments on Clark’s record-breaking season.
“A couple of weeks ago, I reached out to Angel and had a really good conversation with Angel over the phone and sent a message to Caitlin. She responded. She and I went back and forth,” Swoopes said on Sunday’s Baylor-Texas Tech broadcast. “I won’t share what she said, I’ll leave that to her if she wants to share. But I will say, what I said to her was, ‘I made a mistake in saying it was your fifth year when it is your fourth.’
“I have nothing but respect for what she has done for the game. If she wants to share what her response was and how that conversation went, I’ll leave that to her. But it was a really good conversation.”
On the “Gil’s Arena” show a few weeks ago, Swoopes, when asked about Clark breaking the Division I career scoring record previously held by Kelsey Plum, misstated that Clark was doing so in her fifth year.
Clark is a fourth-year player (these comments were made before Clark broke the record last week). She also said that Clark takes “about 40 shots a game.” Clark has attempted 22.7 field goals per game this season.
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