{"id":1451,"date":"2026-03-08T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:00:20","slug":"bruce-pearl-didnt-know-caitlin-clarks-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Pearl didn&#8217;t know Caitlin Clark&#8217;s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There\u2019s something unfortunately poetic about a guy who recently admitted to using nepotism to get his son a coaching job butchering the names of the two most famous women associated with Iowa basketball on International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the lead-up to Sunday\u2019s Big Ten Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament Championship Game between the Iowa Hawkeyes and UCLA Bruins, the TNT Sports\u2019 pregame studio was putting in some last-minute hype for audiences. When they got to college basketball analyst Bruce Pearl, he used the opportunity to note that this was not the Iowa women\u2019s team that some might be familiar with. However, in doing so, he showcased his unfamiliarity with the people he was referring to.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-embed-id=\"f026261aee60402fb8721e26db05201a\" data-embed-type=\"social-auto\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cIowa women\u2019s basketball. No superstar Caitlin Smith,\u201d started Pearl, presumably referring to Caitlin Clark, the most popular women\u2019s basketball player on the planet. \u201cNo Hall of Fame coaches. C. Vivian Stringer \u2026. No Lisa Blunder,\u201d he finished, meaning to refer to longtime Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder, who retired two seasons ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Pearl did correct himself on the Caitlin miscue, though we would love to know how he landed on \u201cSmith,\u201d which is about as far from Clark as you can get.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The post Bruce Pearl namechecks Iowa WBB legends \u2018Caitlin Smith\u2019 and \u2018Lisa Blunder\u2019 appeared first on Awful Announcing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something unfortunately poetic about a guy who recently admitted to using nepotism to get his son a coaching job butchering the names of the two most famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}