{"id":289720,"date":"2025-10-09T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/289720\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:58:10","slug":"caitlin-clarks-iowa-teammate-hannah-stuelke-on-how-fever-star-pushed-her-to-model-her-game-after-draymond-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/289720\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark\u2019s Iowa Teammate Hannah Stuelke On How Fever Star Pushed Her to Model Her Game After Draymond Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Aces\u2019 win over the Mercury last night, the WNBA season may be down to just one game. A\u2019ja Wilson and company have a commanding 3-0 Finals lead, and with how dominant they\u2019ve been in the second half of the season, it would be a surprise if they didn\u2019t close out the sweep on Friday.<\/p>\n

Fans of women\u2019s basketball need not despair, because the college season is almost here to take the baton from the WNBA. The first games are less than a month away, meaning fans won\u2019t have long to wait to get back in the action.<\/p>\n

Big Ten media day was yesterday, and one of the teams everyone has their eyes on is Iowa. Caitlin Clark\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> alma mater is expected to battle for conference supremacy with UCLA, Maryland, Michigan, and USC (who, unfortunately, will be without star JuJu Watkins all year as she recovers from her torn ACL). If the Hawkeyes have a shot, it\u2019ll be in large part because senior forward Hannah Stuelke leads them there.<\/p>\n

Stuelke\u2019s points and field goal percentage dipped a bit last year, but she raised her rebounds and assists on her way to a Second Team All-Big Ten selection by the media for the second year in a row (she was also selected by the coaches in 2023-24). Stuelke sat down with the Big Ten Network\u2019s Mike Hall at media day to discuss the upcoming season and to confirm a rumor about her famous former teammate.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaitlin Clark told me a couple years ago, and maybe she\u2019s taking credit for something or maybe she just made it up,\u201d Hall said<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0\u201cShe told me she told you to watch Draymond Green play ball, and that that\u2019s what you should model your game after.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putting aside Hall\u2019s odd skepticism about what Clark said, Stuelke confirmed that it was indeed \u201c100% true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the aggression that he plays with is really key for me,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cShe always wanted me to be really aggressive and play with a lot of passion, and I think he does that. I think I do that, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stuelke is like Green in a lot of ways. Most of her game is based inside the 3-point line, but she\u2019s not a ball-stopper. She\u2019s a tough defender and an energy player. She\u2019s also a proven winner. She was on two straight national runners-up teams, and even after Clark left and legendary head coach Lisa Bluder retired, she helped guide the Hawkeyes to a 23-11 record and a second-round NCAA Tournament appearance.<\/p>\n

Like Green, Stuelke played a lot of small-ball 5 last year, but she\u2019s expected to shift back to forward this year with the arrival of 6\u20195\u2033 freshman Layla Hays. She\u2019s also been working on her 3-point shot, a new skill that she hopes to show off once the season gets going.<\/p>\n

With Stuelke and former Villanova transfer Lucy Olsen leading the way, the Hawkeyes have a chance to make some noise. If Stuelke can embody some of Green\u2019s best qualities, there\u2019s a chance that this could be a special season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Aces\u2019 win over the Mercury last night, the WNBA season may be down to just one…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":289721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[233,2389,148738,18829,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-289720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-caitlin-clark","9":"tag-draymond-green","10":"tag-hannah-stuelke","11":"tag-iowa-womens-basketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115345273862316953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}