Clark is #1 in offensive box score +/-, but not overall. Win shares heavily factors in the resultants of usage rate and minutes. Bueckers at .565/.476 would have to see enormous drops in fg % and 3 pt % with an increase in usage rate to be even remotely close to Clark's .481/.400.
In the game Sunday, with the huge Ohio logo on the court, I thought it would have been cool if the announcers equated where Clark shot from on the logo to a nearby town. There's one from Ashtabula, another from Youngstown, Toledo, Lima, Cincinnati!!!
Clark is #1 in offensive box score +/-, but not overall. Win shares heavily factors in the resultants of usage rate and minutes. Bueckers at .565/.476 would have to see enormous drops in fg % and 3 pt % with an increase in usage rate to be even remotely close to Clark's .481/.400.
Box +/- is an average based stat that does not take the volume of work into account. But if you are the best player on the team, you help your team more by playing more minutes. Any minute Paige does not play is played by another player who is not as good as Paige. And you cannot beef up the Win Shares with just the usage and minutes. Juju Watkins leads all the player in the usage % and she also plays 32.5 min per game. But she is not even in the top ten in win shares. (I have nothing against Watkins. She is a fine player. But I think Hidalgo is a more valuable player.)
If we ignore the volume factor, the best player is neither Clark nor Bueckers, but Brink. She is #1 in Player Efficiency Rating, Box +/- and Win Shares per 40 minutes. But she averages only 22 minutes per game, and she is 11th in Win Shares. I don't know how much Bueckers could help UConn if she averaged 33 minutes and 22 FGA per game, but I am sure Iowa would not be where they are if Clark averaged 28 minutes and 13 FGA per game.