From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernissi, and this is the Daily.

The tournament games for college basketball begin this week and the star this year is a woman

who is changing everything about the game from the way it's played to its economics and who is watching. Today my colleague Matt Flagenheimer

on the extraordinary phenomenon of Caitlin Clark, the trail she is blazing in women's sports, March 21st.

Matt, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. And welcome to March Madness.

Welcome to March Madness, America.

Here we go. So, Matt, the NCAA basketball tournament starts this week and the biggest

star this year is a woman, Caitlin Clark. She's someone who even a year ago was not a household name. But here we are, devoting an entire daily

episode to her. So for the uninitiated, tell me why. Well, Caitlin Clark is the most famous college basketball player in America.

She is a senior at the University of Iowa.

She is 22 years old.

And she has become this sort of electric phenomenon.

She's selling out arenas and really being this sort of master of ceremonies at every game

that she's in there is a quality to her when you walk into the arena you know

that she is the person that everyone has come to see.

Every camera is pointed at her, every cell phone is pointed at her, every fan is watching

her warm up.

If any sort of mundane activity happens on the court.

She grabs a rebound, she's getting a pass.

There's this sort of anxious hush.

Like there's just this quality of,

you don't know what's gonna happen next. And beyond being a sports story, the story of Caitlin Clark is really about this

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