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Caitlin Clark broke the NCAA women’s basketball scoring record two weeks in the past, nevertheless it was solely on Wednesday she grew to become the all-time main scorer amongst feminine faculty basketball gamers.
The Iowa star handed Lynette Woodard’s 3,649 profession factors with Kansas, erasing a major asterisk within the NCAA’s all-time scoring record. She additionally moved to solely 18 factors shy of breaking Pete Maravich’s 3,667 mark for the NCAA scoring report amongst each women and men.
With a median of greater than 30 factors per sport, Clark is effectively on tempo to go Maravich in her subsequent sport, the Iowa regular-season finale towards No. 2 Ohio State on Sunday.
Minutes earlier than passing Woodard, Clark grabbed one other official NCAA report, scoring her one hundred and fifty fifth 3-pointer of the season to interrupt the single-season mark beforehand held by Idaho‘s Taylor Pierce in 2019.
The efficiency was a part of a triple-double with 33 factors, 12 assists and 10 rebounds for Clark in a 108-60 Iowa blowout of Minnesota. She entered the sport needing 32 factors to match Woodard and received almost midway there in 4 minutes.
Woodard scored her factors between 1977 and 1981, a time when girls’s faculty basketball was ruled by the Affiliation of Intercollegiate Athletics for Girls. The NCAA did not formally sanction girls’s faculty basketball till 1982 and doesn’t acknowledge any gamers or stats from earlier than that yr.
So for many years, Woodard stood above each feminine faculty basketball participant, however wasn’t acknowledged because the all-time main scorer. As one historical observer told Yahoo Sports’ Eden Laase:
“If you don’t know the history-makers, it cheats them and the present gamers,” Elizabeth Galloway-Mcquitter mentioned. “One of many greats of our sport is continually saved within the shadows. And I think about Caitlin [Clark] would wish to know whose report she is basically chasing.”
Clark has lastly put that discrepancy within the report e-book to mattress, with far more to do over the previous few video games of her Iowa profession (assuming she would not spurn the WNBA for a fifth yr of school ball).
The rest of Clark’s season consists of the Hawkeyes‘ sport towards Ohio State, the Large Ten Match and the NCAA event. With Iowa at present rating third within the Large Ten and on observe for a double-bye within the convention event, that leaves as many as 10 video games left for Clark to play.
