Caitlin Clark and the boyfriend Connor McCaffrey have become viral for a specific reason after attending the Big Ten tournament.
The Superstar of the WNBA and her boyfriend of the basketball coach were in Gainbridge Fieldhouse, home of the fever of Indiana de Clark, on Friday to catch the male confrontation Big Ten between Illinois and Maryland.
Clark has been a usual characteristic in the Arena throughout the tournament to absorb the action, including its former crash of Iowa Hawkeyes against Ohio State, during its low season.
However, the former Selection of Draft number 1 and McCaffrey, who serves as an assistant coach in Butler, caught the attention of fans with his appearance in Friday's game.
The cameras caught the couple in the stands during the game, but none had their attention on the court. Both were glued to their phones and did not go unnoticed by several critical fans.
'The generation attached to phones. He is stupid ', a social networks user groaned in X.
Caitlin Clark and the boyfriend Connor McCaffrey have become viral for a specific reason
The couple was caught by cameras who looked their phones during a Big Ten confrontation
'Waste of good seats. There is no interest in the game. Stupid phones, 'another eased.
“Gen Z wearing 100% separated from AF, one third grabbed as another added:” Typical American zombies … that photo says everything. ”
“I went to the tournament to look at his phones,” one intervened, while another asked: “Did you ever see the game?”
Meanwhile, others seemed to take an excavation of modern romances with a writing, “Probantes Text messages are sent”, with a second addition, “it seems a typical date in 2025, damn phones.”
However, others rushed to arrive at the defense of Clark and McCaffrey, noting that McCaffrey's father had just been fired as head coach of the Iowa male team on Friday afternoon.
According to the reports, Iowa, the Alma Mater de Clark and McCaffrey, dismissed the coach on Friday after 15 years in charge.
In his time leading the Hawkeyes, McCaffrey secured seven appearances in the NCAA tournament and produced four NBA recruits in the last four drafts. However, Iowa never advanced beyond the second round of the tournament with him.
Connor McCaffrey played under his father in Iowa from 2017 to 2023 before his current work as an assistant coach in Butler.
Fans criticized the couple for being more concentrated in their phones than in the action on the court
The Butler campus is in Indianapolis, keeping it at a distance near Clark's time with Indiana's fever.
Fran McCaffrey, 65, was the third longest starting coach at the Big Ten conference, tied with Oregon Dana Altmann, with the Ducks joining the league this season, having taken the helm in 2010.
Only Tom Izzo de Michigan State and Matt Painr of Purdue have been in their respective Big Ten schools for longer.
This season, Iowa finished 17-16 in general and 7-13 at the Big Ten conference, he tied in the third brand of the League.
In his last game in the Hawkeyes rudder on Thursday against Illinois, McCaffrey received consecutive technical faults and was expelled.