The Big Ten Conference — the oldest collegiate athletic league in the nation — couldn’t get its shit together for player introductions at its tournament Saturday, with no clock running, nothing at stake, nothing to do but read a list of names.
Iowa’s got the biggest draw in women’s college basketball history on its bench, and anyone with a lick of show business sense knows to introduce her last, so the crowd can go and stay bonkers through tipoff.
Instead, with two players left in Iowa’s starting lineup, Caitlin Clark hears the announcer calling her height and uniform number instead of that belong to her teammate Gabbie Marshall. Here’s Caitlin turning to Marshall with a look of “how did these idiots screw up a bit of showmanship as simple as this”.
If I were one of Clark’s NIL partners, I’d be annoyed at this, because if I’m paying for #22 to raise the roof, the BIg Ten had better let her do that.