The morning after Iowa’s Caitlin Clark became the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer earlier this month, ESPN’s Shannon Sharpe made a telling comment about her impact.
The First Take co-host said that he and Stephen A. Smith have discussed Clark “the whole season” and they “haven’t even mentioned the men’s game.” It’s because of Clark, Sharpe said, that he can now come up with the names of five women’s college basketball players faster than he can rattle off the names of five men.
“I can name you JuJu Watkins,” Sharpe said. “I can name you Angel Reese.