Conservative pundit Jason Whitlock has taken aim at Basketball Hall-of-Famer Sheryl Swoopes – who clarified some critical beliefs she had for Iowa women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark.

Back in February, Swoopes made some generalizations about Clark that proved to be incorrect prior to the Iowa star breaking the NCAA women’s basketball scoring record.

Swoopes tried to claim that Clark’s success wasn’t legitimate by saying she was a 25-year-old player in her fifth year and that she takes ‘about 40 shots a game’. In reality, Clark is a fourth-year senior aged 22, who averages 22.6 shots per game.

Those comments caused backlash – with some accusing Swoopes of racism. When clarifying her criticism on ex-NBA star Gilbert Arenas’ YouTube show, the four-time WNBA champion made the claim that ‘Black people can’t be racist’.

Whitlock pounced on those comments calling Swoopes a ‘dumb jock’ before showing his viewers on The Blaze her comments.

Conservative pundit Jason Whitlock went after Sheryl Swoops after she tried clarifying comments she made about Iowa women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark last month

Swoopes, who was accused of racism by fans of Clark’s, said ‘Black people can’t be racist’

In the clip from Arenas’ show, Swoopes said that what Clark has done for women’s basketball ‘has been great’ and called her ‘the greatest college shooter I have ever seen’.

But she also believes that people shouldn’t put great expectations on Clark or any other WNBA-bound player.

Swoopes said, ‘When you put these expectations on these young women in college to go to the next level and be immediately dominant, when that doesn’t happen, people come back and say, “Oh, she was a bust, she was a flop, she wasn’t that good.”

Just like, let them do what they’re doing in college, enjoy what they’re doing in college, and let them become stars in the WNBA.’

That clarification seems to track from a prediction she made around the time she made her ’40 shots a game’ comment: ‘Will Caitlin Clark be a good pro? Absolutely.

Will Caitlin Clark come into the WNBA and do what she’s doing right now immediately? Absolutely not. Not going to happen.’

Whitlock claimed that Swoopes was moving goalposts and trying to make it seem like her words weren’t as harsh as they were.

‘That super strong, angry lesbian culture is going to destroy Caitlin Clark when she gets to the WNBA,’ Whitlock said – even going so far as suggesting the league’s players are ‘planning on destroying’ her when she gets there.

Instead of critiquing Swoopes’ points on Clark specifically, Whitlock decided to pick apart the Hall-of-Famer’s defense that ‘Black people can’t be racist’.

‘Swoops suffers from idolatry,’ Whitlock said. ‘She’s made her skin color an idol. That’s why in that podcast interview, she’s wearing a t-shirt that stated ‘I AM BLACK HISTORY.’

Clark passed Pete Maravich to become the all-time leading scorer in college basketball Sunday

‘Race is her idol. No different from White KKK members who have made their skin their idol.’

He ended his rant on Swoopes, saying, ‘So what if she said a bunch of ridiculous things about Caitlin Clark, Swoopes is a history-making Black queen! She’s above accountability! She owes no apologies! .

‘She’s free to adopt the attitudes, behaviors, and excuses of White bigots, because her bigotry is inconsequential and/or justified!

Her ancestors were mistreated, she’s earned the privilege to mistreat others! Like a lot of dumb jocks, she’s immersed in the worship of the Black matriarchy.’

On Sunday, Clark passed Pete Maravich to become the all-time leader in scoring for college basketball.

Bueckers broke the news on senior night.

UConn star Paige Bueckers, an expected lottery pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft, announced on Friday that she will return to school for the 2024-25 season. Bueckers broke the news after putting up 21 points and eight assists in the Huskies’ dominant 85-44 win over Georgetown on senior night.

“I can’t put into words what this program has meant to me, what you guys have meant to me, the best student section in the country,” Bueckers said.

“Thank you guys. Obviously, these four years didn’t go how I planned or how I wanted it to go, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I wouldn’t be able to get through what I went through without everybody here, so thank you to the best fans in the country.

“I know everybody wants me to address the elephant in the room. Unfortunately, this will not be my last senior night at UConn. I’m coming back. Thank you guys, we love you. We still need your support the rest of the season, and we’ll see you soon.”

Bueckers won multiple national high school player of the year awards, and was the No. 1 ranked recruit in her class. She arrived in Storrs with high expectations, and fulfilled them immediately by winning Naismith Player of the Year in 2021 as she led UConn to the Final Four.

Since then, however, Bueckers has been plagued by injuries that have limited her to just 44 games.

She underwent ankle surgery after her freshman season, suffered a tibial plateau fracture and torn meniscus early in her sophomore season and tore her ACL just ahead of her junior season. She took a medical redshirt in 2022-23 and sat out that entire season.

Bueckers was cleared to return to action ahead of this season, and has been terrific, averaging 20 points, 4.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.2 steals on 54.1/44.1/83.8 shooting splits.

This time around, however, her teammates have been the ones on the injured list, and, as a result, the Huskies do not look like national title contenders.

While Bueckers would likely be the No. 3 pick, at worst, in this year’s WNBA draft, it’s clear she has unfinished business at UConn.

She’s eligible to return for a fifth season because of her redshirt, and in fact could use the COVID eligibility extension to play a sixth season in college, if she wanted. Though, at the very least, UConn fans can expect to her suiting up come next season.

Caitlin Clark and Kate Martin never missed a beat — literally.

The two started 139 games together over the last four years. Gabbie Marshall has played in 166 career games — the most among any Big Ten women’s basketball player ever.

These three helped create an untouchable legacy, and perhaps the greatest era in Hawkeye history ended Sunday night.

Three starters that climbed to the top of Mount Everest after nearly everybody wrote them off before the season even started.

Iowa clashed with the goliaths of the sport. They took down Kim Mulkey and Geno Auriemma, and are the only team in the last two seasons to defeat South Carolina.

Not hoisting a shiny trophy hurts, and it will. But that’s not the legacy this team leaves behind.

“Time goes so fast, like it’s crazy. I can’t believe this is my last career game,” Clark said.

“There’s so much to be proud of. People didn’t love us for our wins, I think they loved us for the way we carried ourselves every single day. For the way we played for one another.

The joy we played with, the the passion we played with. The competitive spirit we had. The way we high-fived and celebrated our teammates’ success. That’s the reason people loved tuning in to Iowa women’s basketball.”

“I idolized Iowa women’s basketball,” Martin said. “But it wasn’t like it is now. It is super cool to be a part of. I think our legacy is that we changed women’s basketball in a sense.

It’s just really cool to be associated with that, and I feel super grateful.”

“We’ve been together for so long, we’ve been through it together,” Marshall said.

“The ups and the downs, everything in between. I think just having those moments on and off the court to just build the chemistry between the three of us and Coach Bluder.”