Who is Caitlin Clark’s boyfriend?
Clark is dating Connor McCaffery, who spent six seasons at Iowa before departing in 2023 to embark on a coaching career.
McCaffery was limited heavily in his first season with the Hawkeyes in 2017-18, missing two games due to a sprained ankle, eight due to mononucleosis, and 19 due to a tonsillectomy before ultimately redshirting for the campaign. He bounced back to appear in 34 games for his dad’s team as a redshirt freshman, averaging 4.4 points and 3.0 assists in 18.6 minutes per game.
As a redshirt sophomore for the 2019-20 season, he started all 31 games in which he appeared and averaged 6.2 points, 4.0 assists, and 4.0 rebounds while shooting 34.4 percent from the field. He and the Hawkeyes likely would have been headed to the NCAA Tournament for the second time in as many years, but COVID canceled the 2020 edition of the tournament. For the season, McCaffery was recognized as the team’s winner of the Top Playmaker Award.
He shared the Top Playmaker Award the following season and again started all 31 games, averaging 3.3 points, 3.6 assists, and 3.1 rebounds while shooting 32.4 percent from the field. He mostly came off the bench during his redshirt senior year in 2021-22, but he still earned a share of the Top Playmaker Award after averaging 2.5 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 1.9 assists per contest despite starting only five of 34 games total.
McCaffery returned to a starting role in his extra COVID year in 2022-23, when he started 22 of 32 total games and had the best campaign of his career. He posted career bests in shooting percentage (38.4 percent), points per game (6.5), steals per game (1.3), and rebounds per game (4.1) while also averaging 3.7 assists per contest. His 3.9 assist-to-turnover ratio led the nation, and he was named an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention.
