Diversity, equity and inclusion are the biggest threats facing Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes in the NCAA Tournament
Not Angel Reese or JuJu Watkins. Or the undefeated South Carolina Shamcocks, led by Dawn Staley. It is his DEI ideology, a synthesis of the anti-racist brainwashing policies and ideas that supposedly dominate academia.
The selection committee should have created a slot that would allow the Dream Team to advance to the Final Four. Instead, the committee focused on his DEI.
DEI convinced the 12-member NCAA selection committee to give Clark and the Hawkeyes a path to the most difficult Final Four in women’s basketball.
Committee: Lisa Dickerson, Delita Dawkins, Denny Barakat, Jill Bodensteiner, Jenny Bramer, Amanda Brown, Amy Foran, Alex Gary, Lizzie Gomez, Josh Haird, Jill Shields, Lin Tai — puts Clark in the same bracket as Kansas State, and ties with UCLA and LSU give the second-place Hawkeyes their toughest draw of the tournament.
Iowa State has played Kansas State three times over the past two seasons. The Hawkeyes lost two games. The No. 4 seeded Wildcats have Ayoka Lee, a 6-foot-6 senior who is perhaps the best post player in the country. Iowa State and Kansas State will likely meet in the Sweet 16. If the Hawkeyes get past KSU, there’s a good chance UCLA’s 6-foot-7 Lauren Betts or LSU and Angel Reese will be waiting for them in the Elite Eight. LSU, of course, is the defending national champion. The Tigers defeated Iowa in last year’s title game.
The Hawkeyes struggle with size and physical play. The selection committee assembled a large and strong team in the Iowa area.
None of this means anything if you don’t understand diversity, equity, and inclusion. Before we connect the dots, let’s add one more context.
Why is it important for Clark and Iowa to reach the Final Four?
That should be obvious. Clark single-handedly carried women’s college hoops to a place of unprecedented relevance and importance. She is the Tiger Woods of sports. She’s must-see TV. Women’s basketball television ratings soared this year as Clark chased her scoring record and performed a female impersonation of Stephen Curry.
If Clark, Reese, USC freshman sensation JuJu Watkins and Coach Staley’s South Carolina team all make it to the Final Four, the women’s Final Four will likely draw a larger crowd than the men’s tournament. If Clark doesn’t make it to the Final Four, his audience and relevance will be cut in half, if not more.
The selection committee should have created a slot that would allow the Dream Team to advance to the Final Four.
Instead, the commission focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is just a fancy word combination that means “punishing white people.”
Clark is white. Her coach, Lisa Bruder, is white. Most of Clark’s teammates are white. Iowa State is considered the white Cinderella of women’s college basketball. Liberal sports fans prefer Staley or Reese over Clark. They don’t want Cinderella to come back to the ball. USA Today published an article about the importance of black players as the face of women’s college basketball. A white woman wrote the article.
You cannot rise through the ranks as an administrator in women’s college athletics unless you are a devout liberal and a supporter of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Women’s Selection Committee is a coalition of liberals who believe in DEI. This is a group consisting of the athletic director and deputy athletic director who promote DEI.
They are showing “anti-racism” by being racist against white people.
That gave Iowa the toughest tie of the tournament. The well-meaning selection committee bent over backwards to prove it wasn’t in Clark and Iowa’s favor. They did that by punishing Clark and Iowa.
The committee would rather see the women’s tournament underperform in terms of relevance than risk giving Iowa an easy path to the Final Four. Giving Iowa an easy path makes the most sense for women’s college basketball.
Clark will leave the NCAA and join the WNBA after this season. Women’s college basketball has one chance to capitalize on the Caitlin Clark phenomenon. Yes, she made it to the championship game a year ago. However, her performance surprised the world. We heard little about Clark last season. This year, she became the biggest star in college athletics. She’s her 1979 Larry Bird and Magic Johnson in a women’s package.
It would be a tragedy if she didn’t make it to the final four.
Most of the women’s college basketball world is rooting for Clark. They are hard-core leftists. Clark is a different color. she is straight. They must stand against what is in the best interest of the sport in order to stay true to their disruptive diversity, equity and inclusion agenda.
Many of the referees who officiate women’s games are also slaves to DEI.
If I had to bet, Clark and the Hawkeyes would be eliminated from the tournament before the Final Four.
