The NCAA March Madness account posted a video on X honoring four former college stars now excelling in the WNBA. Caitlin Clark wasn't one of them, and fans made it clear they weren't fine with that.

"They made their mark in college. Now they're setting records on the biggest stage," the account wrote on August 26, alongside clips of A'ja Wilson, Paige Bueckers, Olivia Miles and Angel Reese.

The X post was meant as a celebration, but with Clark missing from it, plenty of fans read it as a snub instead.

According to College Basketball Network, the NCAA March Madness X post highlighted Wilson becoming just the second player in league history to reach 100 career games with 25 or more points and Bueckers hitting 1,400 points and 400 assists faster than anyone before her. 

The post also mentioned Miles ranking second all-time in rookie assists, and Reese holding both the single-game and single-season rebounding records.

Clark, meanwhile, left Iowa as the NCAA's all-time leading scorer, men's or women's, averaging 28.4 points, 7.1 rebounds, and 8.2 assists across 139 games.

None of that made the cut either. The comments came fast, and none of them let the NCAA off easy.

Fans flooded the comment section with clear support for Caitlin Clark

The comment section of the same NCAA March Madness X post turned into a pile-on almost instantly, with fans pointing out exactly what the post left out.

"Seems like you missed storyline here. Caitlin Clark is the lightning rod for the NCAA. Not a team player. She electrified the world. And you dis her. Pathetic," one fan wrote.

Clark left Iowa as the all-time leading scorer in Division I history, men's or women's, a fact that makes her absence from the post hard to explain away.

"Naming the few records Caitlin Clark doesn't hold. Smart, otherwise, that video would have been 37 minutes long," another comment read.

Between her NCAA scoring record, her single-season three-point mark, and her WNBA rookie scoring and assist records, the list of what Clark hasn't broken is genuinely short.

"CC= The Standard. It's good to measure their talents against The Standard. Give them their flowers; they are good. But then there is: The Standard, better known as Caitlin Clark, unsurpassed," a fan also mentioned.

The four honorees are excellent players in their own right, but Clark's shadow over the sport's record books remains large.

"You gotta be kidding me. You somehow left the best player out of your promo. Just realize, everyone who saw this post either rolled their eyes or laughed at it. You must lead really sad lives," a fan commented.

The reaction speaks to how big a miss this felt like to the audience the NCAA was trying to reach.

"Wow, have you ever heard of Caitlin Clark? How does she stack up?" one fan made a sarcastic jab.

Given her rookie assist record, her Division I scoring crown, and the attention she brought to women's basketball at Iowa, that question answers itself.

Leaving Clark out of a highlight reel doesn't make her records disappear. It just makes the NCAA's judgment the story instead.

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Rudra Dubey