West Virginia’s Mark Kellogg had his Caitlin Clark trash talk completely backfire

This backfired.

We told you back on Selection Sunday that West Virginia women’s hoops head coach Mark Kellogg might regret what he said.

Specifically, he told the Mountaineers this: “Let’s win one and send Caitlin Clark packing.”

Sure, it was a motivational move, and frankly … it almost paid off! Iowa barely survived the second round game at home, ultimately winning the March Madness contest 64-54.

As you can see below, Kellogg walked it back a bit, talking about how it wasn’t trash talk: “There was some surprise in the room … with our seed is where it started.”

So it was just a motivational tactic. But no one forgot the initial trash talk: