IOWA CITY, Iowa – West Virginia women’s basketball coach Mark Kellogg was trying to fire up his fan base on Selection Sunday, although in retrospect, he might pick a different way to do it.
After the No. 8 seed Mountaineers found out they were in the NCAA women’s tournament early round games at Iowa, Kellogg told the team and its followers, “Let’s win one and then send Caitlin Clark packing.”
The Mountaineers will face No. 9 seed Princeton in the first round Saturday (5:30 pm. ET, ESPN2) here at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. That game follows Clark and the No. 1 seed Hawkeyes meeting No. 16 seed Holy Cross (3 p.m. ET, ABC).
Chatter about Clark, the face of her sport this season, has been constant. Thus, nothing Kellogg said was something she hasn’t heard before. Still, Kellogg said he got some on-line grief from Iowa fans . He was asked about his comment again here Friday.
“I’m not a trash-talk[er] … I wasn’t out to get Caitlin Clark. It’s not Mark Kellogg versus Caitlin Clark,” said Kellogg, who pointed out that the Mountaineers…
