Iowa’s Caitlin Clark snubbed in ridiculous ranking of best women’s college basketball players ever

Caitlin Clark scored more points for Iowa than any other Division I basketball player, whether a man or a woman, has ever scored.

That apparently means nothing to ESPN’s women’s basketball crew, which named the top-five women’s college basketball players of all time on Sunday and didn’t include Clark.

Here’s how ESPN ranked the top-five women’s college basketball players ever:

Breanna Stewart, UConn
Candace Parker, Tennessee
Diana Taurasi, UConn
Maya Moore, UConn
Cheryl Miller, USC

Five other players were also put on the screen as those who just missed out, including Clark along with Baylor’s Brittney Griner, Washington’s Kelsey Plum, Tennessee’s Chamique Holdsclaw and Kansas’s Lynette Woodard.

Stewart is tough to argue with at No. 1. She won four national titles and was the Final Four Most Outstanding Player all four seasons.

Parker, Taurasi, Moore and Miller are some of the all-time greats.

But leaving Clark off is tough. She scored an amazing 3,951 points in her Iowa career while also having enough time to lead the Big Ten in assists in all four of her seasons and total 1,144 of those, too.

Clark boosted women’s basketball in such a huge way, on the backs of the aforementioned greats that came before her.

Maybe ESPN just left her out of the top-five so we’d write an article like this. It’s still pretty ridiculous.

The clear argument here is that national championships matter. But Clark played on the best teams Iowa ever had despite the Hawkeyes lacking the bevy of five-star recruits that played with the top-five on ESPN’s list.

At the end of the day, Clark is a college basketball legend, no matter what a list might say.