As a member of Iowa’s women’s basketball team, Clark set a long list of records and helped college basketball become one of the most-watched sports on television in her final year. But now that she is headed to the WNBA and the Indiana Fever, her college fame brings great expectations and many new eyes to the women’s pro basketball league.
Despite all of Clark’s achievements to date, Wilson is sure that Clark’s popularity is because of racism.
“I think it’s a huge thing,” Wilson said of the racism buoying Clark’s success, according to the Associated Press. “I think a lot of people may say it’s not about Black and White, but to me, it is. It really is because you can be top-notch at what you are as a Black woman, but yet maybe that’s something that people don’t want to see.