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Photo: Caitlin Clark Shows Off Iowa WCBB's 2024 Big Ten Title, Final Four Rings

Julia Stumbaugh

Caitlin Clark may have not won a national title with Iowa, but she still earned some serious hardware in her final college season.

The Indiana Fever star returned to her former school on Saturday to receive rings celebrating the Hawkeyes' 2024 Big Ten championship and the team's appearance in the Final Four of the 2024 NCAA women's basketball tournament.

Clark and her teammates celebrated with Iowa football's Kid Captain prior to the home team's Saturday afternoon game against Northwestern.

Clark played four seasons for Iowa between 2020 and 2024 before the Fever selected her with the No. 1 pick of the 2024 WNBA draft.

She returned to Iowa City to join fellow former Iowa players including Las Vegas Aces guard Kate Martin and Gabbie Marshall, the former Hawkeyes star who retired from basketball in order to attend graduate school, in celebrating the 2023-24 team.

The Big Ten championship ring features an engraving on the inside reading "back to back to back."

Clark was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player as Iowa won three straight conference tournaments between 2022 and 2024. This spring she averaged 28.7 points and 11.3 assists through three games to lead the Hawkeyes to the Big Ten tournament title.

Clark was also instrumental in Iowa's second straight trip to the NCAA championship game this spring.

She averaged 30 points through five tournament games, including a 41-point outing to oust defending champions LSU in the Elite Eight, to lead the Hawkeyes to the national championship game against South Carolina.

Her final college game may have ended in a 75-87 loss, but Clark still departed from Iowa having established herself as the most prolific scorer in men's and women's college basketball history with 3,951 career points.

Fans will now have to wait and see whether they will have to wait until the 2025 WNBA season to watch Clark play again, or if she will join Unrivaled, the 3v3 basketball league founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, when its inaugural season begins in January. The league is currently preparing a "Lionel Messi-like" offer to encourage Clark to join, Michael McCarthy recently reported for Front Office Sports.

   

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