(Photo : (Photo by Matthew Holst/Getty Images)) IOWA CITY, IOWA- FEBRUARY 15: Caitlin Clark #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after breaking the NCAA girls’s all-time scoring report throughout the first half in opposition to the Michigan Wolverines at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on February 15, 2024 in Iowa City, Iowa.
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark made historical past final evening, breaking former Washington ahead Kelsey Plum’s scoring report and turning into the NCAA girls’s all-time main scorer in Iowa’s 106-89 win in opposition to Michigan.
“The coolest thing is just the names I get to be around,” Clark, 22, mentioned when she took over No. 2 on the checklist on Jan. 31. “Those are people that I grew up watching, especially Kelsey Plum, Brittney Griner, Kelsey Mitchell. Those are really, really great players.”
Coming into Thursday’s matchup, Clark wanted eight factors to interrupt the report. She did so by pulling from deep on the left facet of the court docket to surpass Plum’s 3,527 factors.
Caitlin Clark: Record Breaking
Clark continued her pouring, dropping a career-high 49 factors in opposition to Michigan. She scored 23 factors within the first half and continued to look unstoppable all through the competition.
She completed the competition with 49 factors, 13 rebounds, and 5 assists.
Clark has constructed up a case to be one of many biggest girls’s basketball gamers ever. She is at the moment averaging 32.1 factors, seven rebounds, and eight.3 assists per sport. She at the moment owns the ladies’s NCAA report for 30 level video games at 51 video games.
She is considered one of 5 girls gamers in Division I historical past to surpass 1,000 profession assists and 148 behind all-time chief Andrea Nagy.
She at the moment sits third all-time for women and men in factors behind Antoine Davis (3,664) and Pete Maravich (3,667). She is probably going on tempo to topple each of them from the report as Iowa has 5 common season video games remaining after which would compete within the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA Women’s March Madness Tournament.
Iowa is prone to make a deep run in each the Big Ten and NCAA Tournament the place they’re projected to be the No.1 seed.
It’s additionally doubtless if Clark opts to enter the WNBA Draft she’ll be the No.1 general decide, chosen by the Indiana Fever.
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