DALLAS — She’s been the talk of March Madness, the 21-year-old junior point guard who has scored or assisted on 64% of the Iowa Hawkeyes‘ points in the 2023 NCAA tournament. She can hit NBA range 3-pointers and toss no-look bounce passes with equal ease. And she has much of her adoring home state of Iowa (minus some rival Iowa State Cyclones fans) in the palm of her hand.
Caitlin Clark is a hoops junkie and historian, who as a kid instantly fell in love with basketball and now has fans nationwide in love with the way she plays it. Clark has scored 41 points in each of her last two games: first to advance to the women’s Final Four, and then to upset the then-undefeated No. 1 overall seed South Carolina Gamecocks to secure Iowa’s first national championship appearance Sunday (ABC, 3:30 p.m. ET) against the LSU Tigers.
When asked Saturday about comparisons to LSU Tigers legend and Basketball Hall of Famer Pete Maravich, whose NBA career ended 22 years before Clark was born, she grinned and said, “I’ve seen a lot of his highlights. Obviously a tremendous compliment. I saw…
