The NCAA star backed the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark to make it in the WNBA

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Paige Bueckers looks set to inherit the NCAA power vacuum left by Caitlin Clark, who graduated to the WNBA, and she’s come out in defense of the Indiana Fever‘s star as she watched her earn her first win of the season.

The UConn Huskies‘ prospect enjoyed a lot of basketball on Friday, May 24, and she showed off her interest in her chosen game by watching both the Minnesota Timberwolves take on the Dallas Mavericks and the Fever do battle with the Los Angeles Sparks, where she left Clark a subtle message.

“Women’s basketball ALWAYS,” Bueckers said on X.com, formerly Twitter, as she watched the Fever trail the Sparks 39-33 with 1:27 left in the second quarter.

Clark has been under pressure for failing to reach her NCAA levels of regular 30-point games, although she’s only six matches into her WNBA career.

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Furthermore, with the reputation that Clark has, she will be seen as the key to shutting down the Fever’s offense and also as someone to make an impression against.

It means that she’s experiencing a very tough time at the start of her life in professional women’s basketball, that has also seen LeBron James and Charles Barkley rush to her defense.

Why did Bueckers stay in the NCAA?

So, Bueckers, who stayed in the NCAA for an extra year, will likely go as the first pick next season and she will be watching to see how the WNBA responds to new graduates.

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The Huskies’ ace decided to stay in college basketball for an extra year after an interrupted pair of seasons when she sustained a tibial plateau fracture in her knee, before returning at the back end of 2024.

That means that an extra season will allow the national player of the year in 2020/21 to continue to develop her talent, whilst also avoiding being drafted in a tough pool including stars such as Clark, Cameron Brink, Kamilla Cardoso and Angel Reese.

Dallas Cowboys Set The NFL On Fireworks By Dealing QB Dak Prescott To Longtime AFC Rival In Blockbuster Trade Proposal

Dak Prescott of Dallas Cowboys looking on.Dak Prescott (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
The Dallas Cowboys kick off their 2024 NFL campaign in 15 days, and Jerry Jones still hasn’t extended quarterback Dak Prescott or wide receiver CeeDee Lamb as they head into their contract years.

Dak Prescott has one year remaining on the four-year, $160 million extension he signed with Dallas in the 2021 offseason, while the 25-year-old CeeDee Lamb is entering the fifth and final year of his rookie deal.

Some fans have started to wonder if Jones would be open to trading Prescott and Lamb. Of course, his preference is to keep both of them, but what if the Cowboys owner received an offer for his star quarterback that he can’t refuse?

The scenario seems crazy at first, but it’s not. What if Jones traded Prescott, punted on 2024 and set himself up to tank and draft a new franchise quarterback in Georgia’s Carson Beck, Texas’ Quinn Ewers or Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders next year?

One team that makes perfect sense for Dak Prescott is the Pittsburgh Steelers, who haven’t had an above-average quarterback play since Ben Roethlisberger’s last healthy season way-back-when in 2018.