Caitlin Clark Reveals 'Gut' Feeling Led Her Away From Notre Dame

Caitlin Clark was down to two schools when she announced her college commitment back in 2019 — the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Obviously we know which one she ended up picking. But during a recent appearance on the Kelce brothers' "New Heights" podcast, she revealed what ultimately led to her to making the decision that she did.

"I basically narrowed it down pretty early on," Clark recalled. "When I was going through my college recruitment, I wanted to be like in the Midwest, just kind of a homebody, family person. Just wanted to stay fairly close to home. So that narrowed a lot of stuff down. And I visited, like Oregon and Texas and a few other places, and I liked them, but it was just like, I knew it was too far."

"And then I visited Notre Dame a bunch of times, and I was like, I love Notre Dame, and I like, as a kid, like, you want to go to Notre Dame … It's like the coolest thing, it's Notre Dame, it has that tradition. They've had so many great players go through there in every single sport. But like, I just knew, like, something I could feel it in my gut, I was, like, I'm not supposed to go there, so I picked Iowa."

The Indiana Fever star went on to say that she wanted to go somewhere where she could build something while still playing for a program that was competitive.

"Iowa was really good at women's basketball before I went there too. Like, made a few sweet sixteens, made the Elite Eight," Clark explained. "Our coach had been there for quite a while, but they hadn't been to the Final Four since like, 1992 so I wanted to go somewhere that was good, but like, maybe hadn't been like a blue blood per se, in like, quite a few years, and kind of help them get back to that."