Some of college’s most talented female basketball players are choosing to stay in college after Caitlin Clark’s abusive treatment in the WNBA.
Notre Dame’s Olivia Miles (pictured) stunned the sports world when she decided to forgo the WNBA draft and enter the NCAA transfer portal.
Miles has an extra year of eligibility after missing the 2023-24 season due to a torn ACL injury.
The news is disappointing to the Seattle Storm who planned to draft her with the No. 2 pick.
Caitlin Clark, who broke the NCAA scoring record, had a final year of eligibility at Iowa. She earned millions of dollars in NIL deals in college. So money wasn’t a problem.
Clark, 23, could have stayed in college and entered the WNBA draft this year. But she chose to enter the WNBA draft in 2024 for the love of the game.
Unfortunately, the game didn’t love her back.
Coaches and referees looked the other way when WNBA players knocked Clark down, head hunted her, and one even tried to poke her eye out!
Clark spent more time writhing on the court in pain from hard fouls than she did celebrating the Indiana Fever’s victories.
If the abuse on the court wasn’t bad enough, South Carolina coach Dawn Staley and others on the Olympic Committee refused to pick Clark for the USA women’s basketball team.
Now they see the error of their ways and have since apologized to Caitlin, but it’s too late.
What college kid wants to subject herself to the brutal abuse that the league’s No. 1 rookie endured last year?
Olivia Miles isn’t the only top college prospect to avoid the toxic WNBA.
Top draft prospect, Flau’jae Johnson (left) says she hasn’t decided whether she will enter the 2025 draft. Johnson will turn 22 this year and is eligible to declare for the WNBA draft.
UConn women’s basketball star Azzi Fudd recently decided to forgo the WNBA draft and return to UConn next season.
For months, UConn superstar Paige Bueckers hinted she would stay in college and play one more year. Like Clark, Bueckers receives millions in NIL deals in college.
But she recently changed her mind and will declare for the 2025 draft.
Bueckers probably received assurances from the WNBA Commissioner that she won’t receive the Caitlin Clark rookie treatment.
If WNBA players take it easy on Bueckers in her rookie season it would prove that they intentionally targeted Clark for abuse.
