Iowa women's basketball seemingly subtweets Sheryl Swoopes over her inaccurate claims about Caitlin Clark

The Iowa Hawkeyes Women’s Basketball social media team rightfully pays attention to what’s being said about Caitlin Clark. So, when WNBA legend Sheryl Swoopes recently shared her thoughts about Caitlin Clark’s future in the WNBA and her current college career, it got back to the team.

Sheryl Swoopes has hoops circles in a frenzy after she recently appeared on Gilbert Arenas’ podcast. During the episode, Arenas and Swoopes got into a deeper conversation about current college basketball stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark and whether their games would translate to the WNBA.

Swoopes wasn’t convinced that either would have an immediate impact in the league — which raised some eyebrows — but it’s her further assessment of Clark’s current quest to break Kelsey Plum’s scoring record that turned the whole conversation upside down.

A clip of Sheryl talking about Caitlin Clark went viral. But I see yall tried to bury this one

If ANYBODY else was this loud and wrong with misinformation yall woulda lit this app on fire. But since its about CC yall pretended it didnt happen. Nasty pic.twitter.com/jKvRRIMfF9

— Future Of The Retro (@TraeK_) February 4, 2024

In a clip making rounds through social media, Swoopes can be seen explaining why she’s not as impressed with Clark’s journey:

“Kelsey Plum set that record in four years. Well, Caitlin should’ve broke that record in four years. But because there’s a COVID year, and then there’s another year, and – you know what I mean? She’s already had an extra year to break that record. So, is it truly a broken record? I don’t know. I don’t think so. But yeah, that’ll go in the record books… And, I don’t think it should be.”

While Swoopes is entitled to her thoughts, many noticed that some were based on inaccurate information.  The Iowa women’s basketball social media team found out, and they seemingly dropped a tweet aimed at Swoopes and anyone else with a misconception about Clark.

Allow us to introduce you to @CaitlinClark22:

Age: 22
Grade: True senior (4th year)
Games played: 123
Points: 3,462
Assists: 980
FGA/per game: 19.7#Hawkeyes pic.twitter.com/Z6ShxynYn0

— Iowa Women's Basketball (@IowaWBB) February 4, 2024