凯特琳·克拉克现身伊利诺伊男篮赛场：新秀科尔曼赛后才知道，激动直呼要告诉妹妹
位于伊利诺伊州尚佩恩县尚佩恩市的州立农场中心（State Farm Center）11月5日晚举行一场大学男篮比赛，伊利诺伊大学队以112比70大胜宾夕法尼亚大学队。WNBA印第安纳狂热队球星凯特琳·克拉克（Caitlin Clark）当晚就坐在宾夕法尼亚大学队替补席后方看球，而主队两名大一新秀直到赛后新闻发布会上被记者问起，才知道她整晚都在场内——其中后卫昆汀·科尔曼（Quentin Coleman）当场愣住的反应被镜头拍下，11月6日在社交平台上疯传。
据《今日美国》报道，赛后发布会上，记者问科尔曼与前锋扎维尔·岑斯（Zavier Zens）：「你们在开球前知道凯特琳·克拉克在场内吗？这对你们今晚的发挥有影响吗？」岑斯猛地扭头看向科尔曼，科尔曼则张大了嘴、瞪圆眼睛，先用手捂住嘴，又把手拍在额头上，连声说：「等等、等等，凯特琳·克拉克在场内？她为什么会在这儿？……哟……我得告诉我妹妹，兄弟。」被问到影响时他又说，岑斯当晚投篮火热，「她（克拉克）投篮也火热，所以我想他是感应到了……她把气场带进了这个房间」。岑斯只说了一句：「我不知道她在这儿。」
当晚两名新秀的表现确实抢眼：科尔曼替补出场20分钟，9投8中拿下19分，其中15分来自下半场；岑斯拿下18分，三分球8投4中。伊利诺伊大学队全队六人得分上双，继揭幕战以120比45大胜费尔利·狄金森大学后取得开季2胜0负，目前全美排名第三。
克拉克此行并非专程为伊利诺伊大学队而来。据《体育画报》与Yardbarker报道，她是陪男友康纳·麦卡弗里（Connor McCaffery）来看球——康纳的父亲弗兰·麦卡弗里（Fran McCaffery）正是宾夕法尼亚大学队主教练。克拉克与康纳都曾在爱荷华大学打球；克拉克大四最后一次对阵伊利诺伊大学女篮时，曾拿下24分三双、带队赢了16分。她是NCAA一级联赛历史总得分王，大学期间共得到3,951分，目前正处在狂热队季后赛首轮出局后的休赛期。
这段发布会片段由记者库珀·奥凯利（Cooper O'Kelly）在X上发出，FOX College Hoops官方账号11月6日转发后迅速扩散。有网友写道，片段第23秒科尔曼拍额头的动作「说明了一切」；也有人贴出另一段转播画面说，他专注比赛、「径直从她身边走过都没察觉」；还有人打趣说「气场太强，他们反而感应不到」。伊利诺伊大学队主教练布拉德·安德伍德（Brad Underwood）赛后也被问到此事——当晚场边还坐着前NBA射手佩贾·斯托亚科维奇（Peja Stojakovic），其子安德烈·斯托亚科维奇正在伊利诺伊大学队效力；安德伍德笑称：「我们真该办一场三分大赛，看看全场投篮最准的是谁——反正不是今晚上场打球的任何人，别怪我直说。」
Caitlin Clark Shows Up at Illinois Men's Game: Freshman Coleman Learns Afterward and Says He Has to Tell His Sister
State Farm Center in Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois, hosted a men's college basketball game on the night of November 5, with Illinois routing Penn 112-70. WNBA Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark watched from behind the Penn bench, but two Illinois freshmen did not learn she had been in the building until a reporter asked them about it at the postgame press conference — and guard Quentin Coleman's stunned reaction, caught on camera, went viral on social media on November 6.
According to USA TODAY, a reporter asked Coleman and forward Zavier Zens at the press conference: "Were you two aware that Caitlin Clark was in the building prior to tip-off, and if so, did that contribute to your level of play this evening?" Zens whipped his head toward Coleman in amazement, while Coleman's jaw dropped and his eyes went wide; he put a hand to his mouth, then smacked his hand on his forehead and said: "Wait, wait, Caitlin Clark was in the building? Wait, why was she here?... Yo.... I gotta tell my sister, bro." Asked about any impact, he added that Zens had been shooting lights out: "She shoots lights out, so I guess he felt that so... Dang, she just brought the aura in the room." Zens said only: "I didn't know she was here."
Both freshmen had big nights: Coleman scored 19 points on 8-of-9 shooting in 20 minutes off the bench, 15 of them in the second half, while Zens added 18 points and went 4-of-8 from beyond the arc. Six Illinois players scored in double figures as the team improved to 2-0 after opening the season with a 120-45 win over Fairleigh Dickinson; Illinois is currently ranked No. 3 in the nation.
Clark was not there specifically for Illinois. According to Sports Illustrated and Yardbarker, she attended with her boyfriend Connor McCaffery, whose father, Fran McCaffery, is Penn's head coach. Both Clark and McCaffery played at the University of Iowa; in Clark's last game against the Illinois women's team as a senior, she recorded a 24-point triple-double in a 16-point win. Clark is the NCAA Division I all-time leading scorer with 3,951 points in college, and is in her offseason after the Fever's first-round playoff exit.
The press-conference clip was shared on X by reporter Cooper O'Kelly and spread quickly after the FOX College Hoops account reposted it on November 6. One user wrote that Coleman's facepalm at the 23-second mark "says everything about how unprepared they were"; another posted a separate broadcast clip and noted that Coleman was so locked in that "he walked right by her"; another quipped, "Aura was too strong they couldn't sense it." Illinois head coach Brad Underwood was also asked about the star power in the building — former NBA sharpshooter Peja Stojakovic, father of Illinois player Andrej Stojakovic, was also at the arena — and joked: "We should have had a 3-point contest to see who the best shooter in the gym was, cause it wasn't anybody who played tonight. No offense to any of those guys."
来源：FOX College Hoops的X帖文
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图片来源：凯特琳·克拉克本人资料图（Zafer摄于2026年，身穿美国队球衣，CC BY-SA 4.0，经Wikimedia Commons），非本次事件现场图
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