Whether the conversation is about college athletes who had the most decorated careers in women’s basketball history, or former NCAA stars now breaking records in the WNBA, one name seems impossible to leave off any serious list: Caitlin Clark. And yet, when the NCAA recently compiled a promotional post that drew from both categories simultaneously, they somehow still found a way to leave her out entirely.

For former ESPN host Linda Cohn, this is yet another entry in a pattern she has been documenting all season, a series of seemingly deliberate attempts to sideline Clark while amplifying the players around her. And as she has consistently done, she called it out without hesitation. 

“Somehow women’s basketball continues to find creative ways to promote everybody around Caitlin Clark while pretending she isn’t standing right there,” Cohn said in a video shared on her YouTube channel on Saturday.

“So, you’re telling me the all-time leading scorer in Division I NCAA college basketball, the woman who owns more records than every player in that promo combined, the woman who helped take the popularity of March Madness to an incredibly new and different level, you couldn’t find room for her in your small-minded promo post?” 

“…There is enough room for everybody. But you don’t grow those stars by hiding the person who brought the audience.”

The NCAA post in question was published on Wednesday, spotlighting players like Paige Bueckers, A’ja Wilson, Olivia Miles, and Angel Reese for various records they hold in the WNBA. 

“They made their mark in college. Now they’re setting records on the biggest stage 🔥,” the post read.

Cohn had, in fact, already made her feelings known directly under that post before expanding on them through her video. 

“You got to be kidding me. You don’t have to ignore and exclude the game’s biggest star in Caitlin Clark in order to praise others? Why can’t you do both!?!?!?” she wrote in her reply on X.

And her position is difficult to argue with, because the case for Clark’s inclusion was overwhelming. She finished her college career with 3,951 points, surpassing Pete Maravich to become the highest-scoring player in NCAA Division I history, men’s or women’s. She is the first Division I player in history to record more than 3,000 points and 1,000 assists in a career. And she made two NCAA Finals appearances, won the Naismith National Player of the Year, and won the John R. Wooden Award twice, in 2023 and 2024, among other records and accolades.

And Clark has lived up to the hype in the WNBA. Now in her third season, Clark just became the first WNBA player to score at least 30 points and 10 assists in two consecutive games. She is also the first player in WNBA history to record 800-plus points and 300-plus assists in a single season, and holds the all-time single-season assists record that she set in 2024.

Interestingly enough, the NCAA even chose to spotlight Olivia Miles for having the second-most assists by a rookie in WNBA history, instead of Clark, who is the record holder. However, this is not the first time Cohn has seen this pattern.

When ION Sports promoted the prime-time Fever-Wings game earlier this season, they built a graphic featuring Lexie Hull and Raven Johnson on the Fever side while the Wings were represented by their headline stars Paige Bueckers and Arike Ogunbowale. Cohn raised her voice against Clark’s exclusion back then as well.

Earlier in August, WNBA on ION had done something similar, which even caught the larger fanbase’s attention. While disscussing the frontrunners of the WNBA MVP race, they included A’ja Wilson, Kelsey Mitchell, Paige Bueckers, Olivia Miles, and Breanna Stewart, but left out Caitlin Clark.

So, we’ll have to wait and see whether this pattern is here to stay.