Dawn Staley — coach of NCAA women’s basketball champion South Carolina and a Team USA’s Olympic selection committee member — said rookie WNBA star Caitlin Clark would be in “high consideration” for the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team if the roster was selected “all over again.”
Clark’s exclusion from the Olympic rosterwas widely considered one of the biggest snubs in USA basketball history.
NBC host Mike Tirico prompted Staley on the topic earlier this week, asking her to “give me your read on that now that there’s been some time.”
Staley replied, “As a committee member, you’re charged with putting together the best team of players, the best talent. Caitlin is just a rookie in the WNBA. [She] wasn’t playing bad, but wasn’t playing like she’s playing now.”
