Jay Williams Believes Caitlin Clark Is Not 'Great' Until She Wins A Title

Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark is hands down the best female college basketball player in the nation, and everyone else is competing for second place.

She can shoot from anywhere, score in any way, against whoever she plays against. Clark is one of the sport’s most transcendent players at any level, on the men’s or women’s side.

Oh, she also happens to be the all-time leading scorer in women’s college basketball as of Thursday night. She passed Kelsey Plum’s mark of 3,527 points with a three-pointer from just beyond the logo against Michigan.

At the rate she’s going, she could pass Pete Maravich’s record and become the highest scoring college basketball player ever. By all accounts, Clark has reached greatness on this level of competition.

But ESPN’s Jay Williams wouldn’t say that, not yet anyway.

During today’s edition of College GameDay, Williams said that he doesn’t consider players great until they do one very specific thing,

"I think she’s the most prolific scorer the game has ever seen. I hold great, or the levels of immortality or the pantheon, to when you win championships," Williams said. "I’m not saying that she’s not at a high, high, high level, but for it to go to the state of immortality — in my opinion — it has to culminate with your team winning a championship."

I will give Williams a little bit of credit for at least setting a definable metric for how he determines greatness. Most commentators set arbitrary standards by which they judge talent, or at the very least inconsistent ones.

But that doesn’t mean Williams’ standard makes sense.

Players achieve greatness by being consistently amazing over a long period of time. If you reach the point where you have a legitimate chance of becoming the highest