Caitlin Clark's absence from Olympic squad is a 'missed opportunity' for women's basketball, Dan Dakich says

OutKick host Dan Dakich discusses the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball roster as experts continue to criticize the decision to leave Caitlin Clark off the team.  

The expected snub of Caitlin Clark from the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball roster for the summer games is a "missed opportunity," Dan Dakich, host of OutKick's "Don't @ Me," said Sunday. 

"They could have had more eyeballs on women's basketball, which would have equated to going back to your season and finishing up even stronger, but now it's just same old, same old. No one's going to pay attention, and that's a missed opportunity, and a really dumb missed opportunity," he told co-host Will Cain on "Fox & Friends Weekend."

His comments came on the heels of a report from The Athletic saying the Indiana Fever star would be left off the final roster for the 2024 Paris summer games. 

After being named to the national team’s 14-person roster for training camp in Cleveland, Ohio, in early April, she was unable to attend USA Basketball’s training camp because she was focused on playing for the Iowa Hawkeyes in the NCAA tournament.

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Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever takes the ball out during the third quarter of a game against the New York Liberty at Barclays Center on June 02, 2024 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.  (Luke Hales/Getty Images)

USA Basketball has yet to formally confirm the roster for this year's Olympic team, however.

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While some reports speculate the decision stems from Clark's rookie status, others like Dakich struggle to make sense of the move to leave her