Caitlin Clark not included on Time Magazine list of most influential people, prompting questions by fans

Caitlin Clark was not included connected Time Magazine's database of The 100 Most Influential People of 2025, which released Wednesday. 

Clark was near disconnected the database contempt the information that the work named her its Athlete of the Year for 2024. 

Time besides included different athletes connected its "Most Influential" database connected Wednesday, including chap WNBA players Breanna Stewart and Naphisa Collier. The main premise of Stewart and Collier's spot connected the database is their caller launching of the "Unrivaled" women's hoops league arsenic co-founders. 

Other athletes included connected the database were U.S. gymnast Simone Biles, signifier Philadelphia Eagles backmost and Super Bowl LIX MVP Jalen Hurts and France's Olympic golden medalist swimmer Leon Marchand.

Clark's lack from the database prompted questions and criticisms by fans and pundits. 

Fox Sports big Colin Cowherd brought consciousness to the snub erstwhile with a rant during his amusement connected Wednesday. 

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"That's idiotic! That's the dumbest happening I've ever seen!" Cowherd said. "That's a dumb list… she's the astir influential athlete, I would argue, antheral oregon pistillate successful America implicit the past year." 

Other societal media users agreed with Cowherd's take. 

"Clark is the main crushed the league is truthful fashionable and she’s not connected the list?" 1 X idiosyncratic wrote. 

Another idiosyncratic asked, "How...HOW is she near disconnected this list[?] CRAZY!" 

INSIDE CAITLIN CLARK'S IMPACT ON MEN'S BASKETBALL

Caitlin Clark was not included connected Time Magazine's database of The 100 Most Influential People of 2025. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images)

Clark's power connected the popularity of women's hoops implicit the past twelvemonth has been evident successful assorted statistics. 

Clark made the Fever the most-watched squad successful the WNBA by a landslide successful her rookie year, arsenic the 14 most-watched WNBA games of the play each included the Fever. On apical of that, she broke the grounds for astir All-Star votes for immoderate subordinate successful WNBA history.

In aboriginal September, Clark’s Indiana Fever played successful beforehand of a TV assemblage of 1.26 cardinal viewers successful a crippled against the Minnesota Lynx that was played astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic a Week-1 Friday nighttime NFL crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers. 

In Clark's archetypal regular-season finale against the Washington Mystics connected Sept. 19, the 20,711 fans that showed up astatine Capital One Arena acceptable a caller grounds for the highest-attended WNBA regular-season contest.

Clark drew a WNBA grounds 1.84 cardinal viewers to her archetypal playoff crippled against the Connecticut Sun connected Sept. 22, portion competing with an NFL Sunday. She followed it up with different grounds assemblage of 2.54 cardinal viewers for Game 2.

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Clark's power connected the popularity of women's hoops implicit the past twelvemonth has been evident successful assorted statistics. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

But aft Clark's Fever play ended, the WNBA playoffs besides saw a steep drop-off successful viewers. 

The archetypal crippled betwixt the Aces and Liberty, a rematch of past year's WNBA finals betwixt 2 of the league's astir fashionable and palmy teams, drew an assemblage of conscionable 929,000, which was 50% little than the Fever's Game 1 against the Sun.

Meanwhile, successful women's assemblage basketball, aft Clark played successful the archetypal women's NCAA rubric crippled to get much viewers than the men's successful 2024, the athletics saw a steep diminution successful ratings this year. 

Without Clark successful the tournament, the broadcasts of UConn vs. UCLA and South Carolina vs. Texas averaged conscionable 3.9 cardinal viewers for ESPN. It marked a 64% alteration from the record-setting 10.8 cardinal viewers successful 2024, according to Front Office Sports.

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