Caitlin Clark, the number one pick in this year’s WNBA draft is billed as everything from “the greatest of all time” to a “trailblazer.” But is she really any of those things?

What if she’s just a very good, even great — and maybe even the greatest — female college basketball player and nothing more?

That’s not nothing — being the greatest female basketball player of all time — but it’s also not guaranteed, mostly because it’s impossible to measure. Before the NCAA, a woman named Pearl Moore was the highest scoring collegiate female player in history. In fact, she still is. It’s just that she played before the NCAA became the governing body of women’s basketball, so her records don’t count, for some reason.

In the lead up the Clark surpassing “Pistol” Pete Maravich for the NCAA all-time scoring record, the media hyped the record like their lives depended on it. Mentioned less often were a couple of facts that made the breaking of his record slightly less impressive.

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