Can the WNBA Cash in on the Caitlin Clark Effect?

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Caitlin Clark has lifted women’s college basketball to new heights, setting records on and off the court. Now the Iowa superstar is going pro and joining the WNBA. WSJ’s Rachel Bachman on what Caitlin Clark’s huge popularity might mean for the sometimes-struggling women’s league. Further Reading: - Caitlin Clark Drew 18.7 Million Viewers to Women’s Basketball. Will It Last? - Before Caitlin Clark Dominated Women’s Basketball, She Dominated These Boys Further Listening: - The TikTok That Changed College Hoops - The Kiss Rocking Women’s Soccer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Monday night will be a big night for women's basketball.
0:09.2	Fans will head to Brooklyn to watch teams in the WNBA pick new players.
0:18.0	And attention on this year's draft is huge because of one college stop.
0:25.8	Caitlin Clark.
0:27.0	From the logo!
0:29.2	What can't Caitlin Clark do?
0:31.5	There's Clark wide open.
0:33.0	You bet!
0:35.0	31 for the maestro.
0:38.0	Anybody watching her, male or female, young or old, no matter who you are, including
0:45.4	NBA players, can see that what she does is incredibly difficult and impressive.
0:50.6	That's our colleague Rachel Bachman who's been following Caitlin Clark.
0:55.7	She is now the all-time scoring leader in NCAA basketball, men or women, so you don't need to explain that to anybody she's the top
1:04.5	scorer in the sports history. Clark has taken her college team the Iowa Hawkeyes
1:10.8	to two national finals. And now she's going pro. But in women's basketball,
1:19.1	going from college to pro is a bit of a downgrade.
1:23.0	Not everybody knows all the teams, not everybody knows the top players in the league,
1:29.0	and it's because in the history of sports, they're relatively new. It takes a long time, you know, it took
1:35.6	decades for the NBA to really catch on in the American sports mainstream. in sports.
1:47.0	How big a moment is this for the W.N. And for women's sports?
1:49.0	I think for both of them, it's a very big moment.
1:53.8	This moment, I think will help push the WMBA
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