A rivalry that didn’t actually exist till Monday evening is already heating up between Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark. Each celebrity ladies’s school basketball guards will sq. off for the for second time of their careers on the Closing 4 in Cleveland later this week.
They’re very totally different gamers each on and off the court docket!
UConn and Iowa met throughout the 2021 NCAA Match, when each Bueckers and Clark had been freshmen. The 1-seed Huskies defeated the 5-seed Hawkeyes 92-72. Clark dropped 21 factors on 21 pictures. Bueckers had 18 factors, 9 rebounds and eight assists.
This second assembly can be totally different. Each gamers have developed. Each groups are in very totally different locations than they had been three years in the past. It’s going to be a battle!
On-court play apart, Bueckers threw some shade at Clark after beating USC within the Elite Eight. She might not have supposed to take action, however she did!
Only a few photographs in sports activities are as iconic because the one among Kobe Bryant within the bathe after profitable the 2001 NBA Championship. We don’t personal the rights to that picture so I can’t put up it right here, however the one. He was emotional within the bathe whereas carrying this jacket:
Quick ahead to final month. Clark led Iowa to its third-straight Huge Ten Match title.
She recreated the enduring picture of Kobe after the sport. It was chilly.
Nevertheless, within the homage Mamba himself “the job was not completed.” The Huge Ten Match finally doesn’t imply something in case you get knocked out of the NCAA Match. Clark drew criticism for recreating such a well-known image for a win that issues far lower than the nationwide championship.
Bueckers, whether or not she knew of her Closing 4 opponent’s bathe picture or not, refused to do the identical. Certainly one of UConn’s all-time greats left that to one of many NBA’s all-time greats.
Caitlin Clark took the picture after the Huge Ten Match. Paige Bueckers refused after the Elite Eight. Spicy!
