Certified hooper.
As if there was even a shadow of a doubt about Caitlin Clark‘s basketball capability and skill, a rare video from a session where she went off for 22 points in two minutes against Iowa’s all-male scout team has surfaced.
In the halls of the Iowa basketball program, it is simply known as The Scrimmage.
It was on October 20, 2021, two weeks before the start of her sophomore season, that those around the program realized that what they had in Clark was something they had never seen before.
ESPN’s Wright Thompson went to Iowa City and got to the bottom of the historic day that changed Iowa basketball, and Clark’s trajectory, forever.
He spoke to coaches, teammates, student managers and Clark herself.
“I watched it with my own two eyes,” former manager Spencer Touro said.
“I think she made like five 3s in a row,” head coach Lisa Bluder recalled.
“I remember the scrimmage,” teammate Kate Martin said. “I would get caught just watching her.”
“She had seven 3s and a floater to tie at the buzzer,” former coach Jan Jensen added.
“Everyone was freaking out,” manager Will McIntire noted.
“They’re going full tilt on her,” male hooper Isaac Prewitt said. “They’re not holding back.”
“You just have to let your jaw hit the floor,” McIntire said.
“She’s smiling now,” Jensen joked. “She knows.”
“They were going insane,” Caitlin said.
“We’re on the other side,” McIntire said. “We are all like, oh my god.”
“The coaches were just like, what the f***,” Caitlin said.
And the rest was history.
She dominated at Iowa and became a legend.
Clark has played only one season in the WNBA with the Indiana Fever and is already dominating.
And on that cold, frigid day in Iowa City four years ago, she dominated a handful of men.
For Clark, it never mattered who was in front of her.
It was always just, ball up top.
