Would Caitlin Clark play
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In college I knew a few guys who practiced against the ISU womens team as essentially the “practice squad”. Most guys were good Iowa High School basketball players, but not good enough to play at anything higher than D3 level. They would routinely dominate the women’s team every day in practice. It’s just not comparable.
Is is that she's a woman?
No way college level male defenders would let her get a shot off. She's too good of a shooter. They would be all over her.
A human with her size and speed would have a hard time on a D3 mens basketball team.
Think of a guy like Bobo when he had to guard Oregon's players.
KidSilverhair
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I'll say this...most of the responses in this thread are comparing women's BB 20 years ago to men. It used to be unwatchable, but the women's game has gotten 1000% better in the last 10-20 years. Of course, she would not be a superstar or even probably regular rotation player, but it's a lot closer than many of you think.
She would get owned hard by any starting guard in the B12.
The big differences for her would be when she drives she likes to chicken wing the other players for separation. She can do that to Lexi, now replace Lexi with Jaren and she does that, she isn’t getting any push. Now if she gets around him, she has to deal with Osun as a rim protector instead of Kane. Her drives are dead. So she would be a shooter. There is a pretty good difference when you are shooting the men’s and women’s ball. You wouldn’t think so when you say it’s an inch, but it makes a good difference. Throw in that now she has a 6-2 to a 6-5 guard on her instead of a 5-9 to 6-0 and her vision will be tougher along with a longer wingspan and more vertical. She wouldn’t be a D1 mens player.
Yes. And that’s ok. Good grief, I’ll never understand some people’s needs to make everything equal.
When I was in Jr high, the hs women's ball coach wanted our 8th grade boys to scrimmage the hs girls one practice. Our 1 guy over 6' and easily our best player was not allowed to play. Small hs, girls were a top 3 team in conference.
The girls made their first shot. 2-0. Then the ladies coach called it off after we went on a 40-0 run off of about 17 straight turnovers.
Women can compete in a lot of things with men, but not things that involve running and jumping.
She is the most exciting women's player I've ever seen (maybe next to griner), but I doubt she'd see playing time on many d3 men's teams.
The girls made their first shot. 2-0. Then the ladies coach called it off after we went on a 40-0 run off of about 17 straight turnovers.
Women can compete in a lot of things with men, but not things that involve running and jumping.
She is the most exciting women's player I've ever seen (maybe next to griner), but I doubt she'd see playing time on many d3 men's teams.
I would give her d3. Some of those teams are pretty bad. It’s like HS backups at time.
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