Caitlin Clark has captivated America, but is she good enough to make the USA Olympic team? WPXI [Video]

NEW YORK — Caitlin Clark has been on a whirlwind ride to the top of American sports. She spent five months breaking record after record. She lifted Iowa to a national championship game, and women’s basketball to new heights. Ever since, she’s been hopping around the country, from Los Angeles to Manhattan, “chugging Coke all night, trying to stay awake” for Saturday Night Live, then the WNBA Draft.

Now she is in Indiana. Next is the nationwide professional grind. And then … the Olympics?

“Obviously,” Clark said Wednesday, “I would love to be on the Olympic team, and be in Paris. But that’s not up to me … I actually still need to earn my degree, too; I need to graduate college first, or else my mom might kill me.”

It is up to USA Basketball, and specifically to a selection committeethat will pick Team USA’s 12-woman roster sometime …