Caitlin Clark has made her opinion on Paige Bueckers very clear.

The Iowa Hawkeyes legend joined Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi’s telecast during the 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament national championship game on Sunday afternoon. UConn took down South Carolina, 82-59, in Tampa, Florida on Sunday. Bueckers, who was in the same recruiting class as Clark, finished her career with a national championship.

Bueckers is now off to the WNBA, where she’s expected to be a top pick in the upcoming WNBA Draft. But how will Bueckers fare in the WNBA moving forward?

Clark, the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year, made her opinion on the matter very clear.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – DECEMBER 27: Caitlin Clark and Connor McCaffery take in the Salt Lake City Stars take on the Indiana Mad Ants on November 15, 2024 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images)

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Clark said that she believes that Bueckers’ “poise” will help her immediately in the WNBA.

Bueckers had 17 points, six rebounds and three assists in the blowout win over South Carolina. She’s the frontrunner to go No. 1 overall in the 2025 WNBA Draft next week.

“I think her poise. That’s something you need coming into the W,” Clark said. “It all hits you so fast. You’re moving to a new city, you’re trying to understand your teammates, while you’re trying to live up to all these expectations. And I think that’s one of the greatest things about her game is just her poise and her maturity, and nothing ever seems to faze her. And she’s just always the same constant leader.”

Bueckers has been through a lot so far in her career. She missed serious time with a torn ACL injury but managed to come back and finish her college basketball career with a national championship.

Clark thinks she’ll thrive in the WNBA.

“She can score on all three levels, and she finishes well around the rim. Her mid-range game is some of the best I’ve honestly ever seen,” Clark said. “And, you know, obviously she can score from the 3-point line, too.

“So I think all that — you can play point guard, but you can also play off the ball. I think that’ll be an interesting dynamic with [Dallas Wings guard] Arike [Ogunbowale], obviously, we all know she’s going No. 1. So it’ll be interesting to see how they kind of put those two pieces together and how that’ll work.”