ALBANY, N.Y. — The TV reporters raised their cameras high and at a sharp 45-degree angle. Print reporters stuffed their phones through openings around dozens of bodies. Those hanging back gave each other a look.
“That? I’m glad I don’t have that,” Iowa sophomore Hannah Stuelke said, gesturing toward the scrum of more than a dozen reporters packed around their subject, a March Madness logo perfectly peeking above them.
Caitlin Clark stood in the center of the half-circle answering two more minutes of questions after spending 15 minutes on the dais with senior starters Kate Martin and Gabbie Marshall.