Caitlin Clark… GOAT? Plus: Mia Fishel reaction and more USWNT predictions

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Claire reflects on Caitlin Clark’s position in college basketball history after she passes Kelsey Plum for the scoring record. She also touches on Geno Auriemma’s latest milestone, Paige Buecker’s returning, and Brittney Griner’s overdue jersey retirement. Then, Claire dives into the USWNT, previewing the Gold Cup and who she wants to see on the field while also discussing Mia Fishel’s torn ACL. She also reflects on Lindsey Horan’s comments about American fans and the USWNT’s captain’s apology. To wrap up, Claire celebrates Sabrina's stand-out showing in her 3-point shootout with Steph Curry at NBA All-Star.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to the late sub the show where we break down the
0:09.9	biggest news in women's sports every single week.
0:12.5	It is Tuesday, February 20th.
0:14.9	We're hitting you with a little bit of a quicker turn around
0:16.7	this week because we took that nice long holiday weekend
0:18.6	in the US, which was great.
0:20.0	But we have got so much to talk about we're going to be looking
0:23.4	both ahead and behind us today we got a big scoring record to talk about I'm sure you
0:27.7	guys have heard
0:28.6	want to talk a little bit about some of the cool
0:30.9	WMBA stuff that happened over the weekend and then we're going to take a look ahead
0:34.7	at the long week ahead for the US Women's National team as they get into the nitty gritty of the
0:40.0	gold cup group stage. No more intro, no further ado. Let's get into the news.
0:45.0	So the biggest news of the week and this is probably things that you have heard
0:48.7	before because it's been a couple days. Caitlin Clark has done it. She is the leading scorer in NCAA women's
0:55.4	college basketball. She did this on Thursday, surpassing the record
0:59.1	previously held by Kelsey Plum. That record has stood since 2017. If you guys missed the highlights, I really
1:06.0	recommend going and checking them out. It was like typical Caitlin Clark fashion. She broke the record
1:11.2	with a career and program high 49 single game points. This was against Michigan. She scored the first eight of Iowa's points to break the record. The record breaking shot itself was a logo three. It was just a really great confluence of
1:26.4	player being ready for the moment having a hot shooting night and going for gold
1:30.5	in front of in front of a home crowd.
1:32.5	It was really, really cool.
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