Caitlin Clark was not included on the list of 100 most influential people in Time magazine, which released on Wednesday.
Clark was left from the list despite the fact that the publication appointed his athlete for the year for 2024.
Time also included other athletes on Wednesday on his “most influential” list, including other WNBA players, Breanna Stewart and Naphisa Collier. The main premise in Stewart and necklace on the list is their recent launch of the “unrivaled” women’s basketball league as co-founders.
The other athletes included on the list were the biles of Gymnast Simone, the form of the quarter-back of the Eagles of Philadelphia and the MVP of the Super Bowl Lix Jalen Hurts and the Olympic gold medalist from France Leon Marchand.
The absence of Clark from the list aroused questions and criticism of fans and experts.
Fox Sports host Colin Cowherd made aware of the SNUB when he is with a diatribe during her show on Wednesday.
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“It’s silly! It’s the stupid thing that I have ever seen!” Said Cowherd. “This is a stupid list … It is the most influential athlete, I would say, man or woman in America in the past year.”
Other social media users agreed with taking Cowherd.
“Clark is the main reason why the league is so popular and it is not on the list?” An X user wrote.
Another user asked: “How … she left out[?] MAD!”
Inside the impact of Caitlin Clark on male basketball
Caitlin Clark was not included on the list of 100 most influential people in Time magazine in 2025. (Ron Hoskins / NBAE via Getty Images)
Clark’s influence on the popularity of women’s basketball in the past year has been obvious in various statistics.
Clark made fever the most watched team in the WNBA by a landslide His recruit yearBecause the 14 most watched WNBA games of the season all included the fever. In addition to that, she broke the record for most stars votes for any player in the history of WNBA.
At the beginning of September, Clark’s fever in Indiana played in front of a television audience of 1.26 million viewers in a match against the Lynx of Minnesota which was played at the same time as a match of the week-1 Friday evening between the Eagles of Philadelphia and Green Bay Packers.
In the first final of the Clark regular season against Washington’s mystics on September 19, the 20,711 fans who presented themselves in Capital Onena set a new record for the most popular WNBA season competition.
Clark designed a WNBA record 1.84 million viewers in its first eliminatory match against Connecticut Sun on September 22, while competing with a NFL Sunday. She followed with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for match 2.
Clark’s influence on the popularity of women’s basketball in the past year has been obvious in various statistics. (AP photo / Michael Conroy, file)
But after the end of the Clark fever season, the WNBA qualifiers also saw a steep drop in viewers.
The first match between the Aces and Liberty, a revenge match of the WNBA finals from last year between two of the most popular and successful teams in the League, attracted an audience of only 929,000, which was 50% less than match 1 of the fever against the sun.
Meanwhile, in female university basketball, after Clark played in the first match for the NCAA female title to obtain more viewers than men in 2024, sport experienced a sharp drop in notes this year.
Without Clark in the tournament, UCONN’s emissions against UCLA and South Carolina against Texas have only reached 3.9 million viewers for ESPN. He marked a decrease of 64% compared to viewers of 10.8 million records in 2024, according to Front Office Sports.
