She coached Caitlin Clark at Iowa

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Episode 490 of the Sports Media Podcast features Lisa Bluder, the former University of Iowa women’s basketball team coach and one of the most accomplished basketball coaches of her generation. Bluder led Iowa to the national title game in 2023 and 2024 and won 528 games at the school. In this podcast, we discuss how she approached the massive amount of media attention Caitlin Clark received at Iowa; how Bluder and her staff thought about interactions with both the national and local media; the number of media requests for Clark; how she advised players when it came to social media; her thoughts on Clark being on the 2028 U.S. Olympic Basketball team; Bluder’s work this month as an analyst for the Big Ten Network’s coverage of the women's basketball tournament coverage and why she hopes to continue with Big Ten Network; the injury to USC star JuJu Watkins; people wanting Clark to be what they want when it comes to how she answers questions; the women’s basketball final between Iowa and South Carolina in 2024 averaging 18.9 million viewers; the game Iowa basketball played at Kinnick Stadium; what’s next for women’s basketball; her husband, David Bluder, work as a novelist. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:13.4	I'm your host, Richard Dyche.
0:14.3	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:16.3	Our guest today is one of the most accomplished college basketball coaches in history. Lisa Bluter led the University
0:23.9	of Iowa women's basketball team to the national title game back to back, 2023, 2024. She's a 2019
0:31.8	Nate Smith coach of the year, three-time Big Ten coach of the year. And most obviously, I think for people who are listening to
0:39.2	this podcast in both the U.S. and Canada was, of course, the coach of Caitlin Clark.
0:43.6	Last year, she stepped away as the head basketball coach at the University of Iowa. And this
0:49.0	month, she was an analyst for the Big Ten Network, of the Big Ten women's basketball tournament.
0:55.9	So when I bring Lisa in, I want to talk to her about her foray into broadcasting.
1:00.2	But in terms of big picture, there's probably no coach in college athletics who had more
1:07.3	experience dealing with major media and media obligations than Lisa Blueter did
1:13.0	over the period that she coached Caitlin Clark.
1:15.3	And with that, I am pleased to bring in Lisa Bluiter.
1:17.7	Welcome.
1:18.3	Thank you, Richard.
1:19.1	It's good to be here.
1:19.9	Thanks for all those nice things you said about me.
1:21.8	I haven't heard any of those things for a long time, so it's good to hear them.
1:24.8	But, Coach, you know, just because you walk away, the resume is still there.
1:27.6	Never, never leave.
1:28.8	Oh, you're very kind, Richard.
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