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ESPN is facing backlash for leaving Caitlin Clark out of their greatest women’s college basketball player of all-time list. Over the weekend, ESPN debated their top five greatest women’s college basketball players list, and Ari Chambers successfully convinced her co-hosts to leave Clark off the list because Clark didn’t win a championship at Iowa.
“The only strike against Caitlin Clark is that she has not won a national championship, and that is the only thing that you can put against her because the way she dominated the record books at Iowa is something you can’t duplicate; she’s a three-time NCAA scoring leader and assists leader… But how can you be a top-five player if you have not won a title.”
espn puts out a 10 min video ranking all time college players. they say caitlin can’t be ranked in the top 5. yet the title is “Is Caitlin Clark The Greatest Of All Time In College Basketball?” to farm engagement and hate lmfaooo pic.twitter.com/X26K6wm6pX
— correlation (@nosyone4) March 16, 2025
Fans blasted ESPN and Chambers for their latest Clark hot take.
“How can you be a top-five player without a title?” because teams win titles, one player can’t be expected to drop 40-point triple-doubles every game. Not one player could take Iowa to back-to-back final fours, and that’s why she’s the goat, commented one fan.
Caitlin broke every stat record imaginable as an individual but didn’t win a team national championship, so she’s never a top 5 individual player. Got it, said another fan.
It’s kind of wild refused to put Clark on their list considering she holds nearly every statistical record in women’s college basketball history.