Caitlin Clark has one other profession report on her astounding resume: probably the most factors by any main school ladies's participant to ever take the court docket.
Iowa's celebrity guard scored 33 factors to steer the sixth-ranked Hawkeyes to a 108-60 romp of Minnesota, pushing her previous Lynette Woodard on the all-time listing with 3,650 factors.
Clark left little doubt she'd get there by dribbling left off a display screen and swishing a 3-pointer from the highest of the important thing simply 13 seconds into the sport. She swished her first 4 3-pointers, three of them from additional deep, and had 15 factors within the first 3:18 of the sport.
The warmth examine got here halfway via 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.
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Clark had 21 factors at halftime. She spent a lot of the second half flashing her passing abilities to search out open teammates, however lastly with 4:17 left she buried her eighth 3-pointer of the sport to cross Woodard. She additionally set the NCAA single-season report for 3-pointers within the course of.
Clark additionally had the seventeenth triple-double of her profession.
Woodard totaled 3,649 factors from 1977-81 for Kansas when the game was underneath the purveyance of the Affiliation for Intercollegiate Athletics for Girls, earlier than the NCAA sanctioned ladies's basketball. Earlier this month, Clark handed Kelsey Plum (3,527) because the all-time NCAA ladies'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 3-point shot.
Pearl Moore of Francis Marion has the general ladies’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.
In entrance of a sellout crowd of greater than 14,000 followers at Williams Area, the eleventh sellout in 11 true street video games this season for Clark and her crew, the Hawkeyes cruised previous the Gophers to make the report extra palatable for the fourth-year participant.
Clark has graciously dealt with the highlight on her particular person feats whereas attempting to emphasize the significance of group 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. group that received the gold medal on the Summer time Video games in Los Angeles, a flexible participant and a magnetic persona who performed professionally in Italy and Japan and in 1985 grew to become 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.