Caitlin Clark has one other profession report on her astounding resumé: probably the most factors by any main school girls’s participant to ever take the court docket.
Iowa’s celebrity guard scored 33 factors to guide the sixth-ranked Hawkeyes to a 108-60 romp of Minnesota, pushing her previous Lynette Woodard on the all-time checklist with 3,650 factors.
Clark left little doubt she’d get there by dribbling left off a display screen and swishing a three-pointer from the highest of the important thing simply 13 seconds into the sport. She swished her first 4 three-pointers, three of them from additional deep, and had 15 factors within the first 3:18 of the sport.
The warmth verify got here halfway by the primary quarter, a flick from the highest that bounced off the again rim and prompted a half-hearted “Overrated!” chant from just a few clever guys within the Minnesota scholar part.
Clark had 21 factors at halftime. She spent many of the second half flashing her passing expertise to seek out open teammates, however lastly with 4:17 left she buried her eighth three-pointer of the sport to move Woodard. She additionally set the NCAA single-season report for three-pointers within the course of.
Clark additionally had the seventeenth triple-double of her profession.
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Woodard totalled 3,649 factors from 1977-81 for Kansas when the game was beneath the purveyance of the Affiliation for Intercollegiate Athletics for Ladies, earlier than the NCAA sanctioned girls’s basketball. Earlier this month, Clark handed Kelsey Plum (3,527) because the all-time NCAA girls’s scoring chief.
Pete Maravich (3,667) is the all-time main school chief for both gender, simply 17 factors forward of Clark. Pistol Pete performed for LSU from 1967-70 and, like Woodard, within the period previous the three-point shot.
Pearl Moore of Francis Marion has the general girls’s report with 4,061 factors from 1975-79 on the small-college stage within the AIAW. Moore had 177 factors in junior school earlier than enrolling at Francis Marion.
There are three different small-college gamers from the Nationwide Affiliation of Intercollegiate Athletics, together with present College of Well being Sciences and Pharmacy guard Grace Beyer, forward of Clark.
Clark has graciously dealt with the highlight on her particular person feats whereas attempting to emphasize the significance of workforce efficiency, with two losses within the earlier 4 video games costing Iowa a possibility for the Massive Ten common season championship. Ohio State clinched the title on Wednesday and visits Iowa on Sunday in a conflict of convention and nationwide powerhouses.
What about Woodard?
She was a two-time Olympian and captain of the 1984 U.S. workforce that received the gold medal on the Summer season Video games in Los Angeles, a flexible participant and a magnetic character who performed professionally in Italy and Japan and in 1985 turned the primary feminine member of the Harlem Globetrotters touring hoops troupe. She performed within the WNBA in 1997-98, the league’s first two seasons, and was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2004. Woodard was additionally the pinnacle coach at Winthrop for three-plus seasons from 2017-20.
