Caitlin Clark supports boyfriend's Butler basketball team in MSG appearance for Big East Tournament

Caitlin Clark is acceptable to instrumentality connected the WNBA successful twelvemonth 2 with the Indiana Fever, but first, she had to enactment her fellow connected the assemblage stage. 

Clark's boyfriend, Connor McCaffrey, is an adjunct manager with the Butler Bulldogs, and they had a matchup against St. John's successful the Big East Tournament connected Thursday astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City. 

Clark was spotted wearing a Butler chapeau close adjacent the team's bench, and overmuch similar she was watching her erstwhile Iowa Hawkeyes play successful the Big Ten tournament, she was animated passim the crippled that yet ended successful decision for her side. 

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) cheers connected her erstwhile teammates connected Thursday, March 6, 2025, successful a round-two crippled astatine the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament betwixt the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Michigan State Spartans astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (IMAGN)

St. John's, the favourite to triumph the Big East rubric arsenic the No. 1 seed, defeated Butler, 78-57, to beforehand to the semifinals of the tournament, which volition beryllium played connected Friday.

At 14-19, it is harmless to accidental that Butler won't beryllium heading to the NCAA Tournament this twelvemonth contempt their champion efforts. 

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McCaffrey is the lad of legendary Hawkeyes men's hoops manager Fran McCaffrey, and the 6-foot-5 defender played astatine Iowa from 2017-23, wherever helium averaged 6.5 points and 4.1 rebounds per crippled implicit 166 contests. 

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) plays against the Dallas Wings successful the 2nd fractional of a WNBA hoops crippled successful Indianapolis, Sept. 15, 2024.  (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

The younger McCaffrey is pursuing successful his father's footsteps now, arsenic helium joined Butler's unit successful September 2024 arsenic an adjunct manager aft antecedently serving successful a hoops improvement coordinator relation with the NBA's Indiana Pacers. 

Being successful Indianapolis made consciousness from a mates standpoint, arsenic Clark besides played her Fever games astatine the Gainbridge Fieldhouse – the aforesaid location arsenic the Pacers. Clark went connected to go the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year, breaking galore rookie and league records successful conscionable her archetypal season. 

Clark and McCaffrey person been dating for astir 2 years now. 

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) waves to her erstwhile teammates Wednesday, March 5, 2025, successful a round-one crippled astatine the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament betwixt the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Wisconsin Badgers astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (IMAGN)

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McCaffrey's Butler play whitethorn beryllium coming to a close, but Clark's volition beryllium underway successful May erstwhile the Fever instrumentality connected the Chicago Sky to footwear disconnected the 2025 campaign. 

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