UConn head coach Geno Auriemma reveals his reasons for not recruiting Caitlin Clark, the NCAA's all-time leading scorer, despite her talent and success.
Just about every college basketball team would be ecstatic to have Caitlin Clark playing for them. The Iowa Hawkeyes star is the NCAA 's all-time leading scorer, but predicting that when she was in high school would have been pretty bold. Three other players were ranked higher than her in her high school class — Paige Bueckers, Angel Reese and Cameron Brink.
Reese and Brink committed to Maryland and Stanford, respectively, and while Clark stayed home to play with the Hawkeyes, UConn landed Bueckers, the top player of the class. UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said he didn't recruit Clark, and he had his reasons. 'I committed to Paige Bueckers very, very early, and it would have been silly for me to say to Paige, 'Hey listen, we're going to put you in the backcourt, and then I'm going to try really hard to recruit Caitlin Clark.' I don't do it that way,' Auriemma said earlier this week, via CT Insider. Hindsight is 20/2
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