Iowa star Caitlin Clark is now the main scorer in main school basketball historical past, males’s or girls’s, having handed Corridor of Famer Pete Maravich’s longtime mark of three,667 factors Sunday afternoon.
The 22-year-old guard handed Maravich within the second quarter of Sunday’s Senior Day matchup towards No. 2 Ohio State. Clark entered Sunday’s recreation needing 18 factors to surpass Maravich, and he or she handed Pistol Pete by making a pair of free throws within the last second of the primary half.
The sold-out crowd at Carver-Hawkeye Area erupted in cheers as Clark carried out one more historic feat. The accomplishment got here in her a hundred and thirtieth profession recreation throughout her fourth collegiate season. Clark entered the sport main the nation in scoring at 32.2 factors per recreation.
FOR THE ALL-TIME SCORING RECORD!!!!! 🤩 🔥 CAITLIN CLARK!@CaitlinClark22 x @IowaWBB pic.twitter.com/dBHFW9k2PK
— FOX Faculty Hoops (@CBBonFOX) March 3, 2024
Maravich set the boys’s main school report in 83 video games over three varsity seasons (averaging 44.2 factors per recreation) at LSU from 1967–68 by way of 1969–70, a mark that stood for 54 years.
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It’s simply the newest accomplishment for Clark, who broke Lynette Woodard’s profession scoring report for main girls’s school basketball on Wednesday. Woodard was in attendance throughout Sunday’s recreation at Iowa, too.
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The guard broke the NCAA Division I girls’s scoring report beforehand held by Kelsey Plum on Feb. 15. Clark additionally holds the Massive Ten girls’s basketball report and Iowa’s program report.
Nonetheless, Clark entered Sunday’s recreation 234 factors behind Pearl Moore, who recorded a report 3,884 varsity factors at Francis Marion. Moore’s mark doesn’t embrace 177 factors scored in junior school.
Clark introduced her intention to declare for the 2024 WNBA draft Thursday, and he or she is anticipated to be the No. 1 decide by the Indiana Fever on April 15.
No. 6 Iowa (26–4, 15–3 Massive Ten) went on to defeat Ohio State (25–4, 16–2), 93–83, ending the Buckeyes’ 15-game profitable streak.
A historic day for @CaitlinClark22 on @IowaWBB's Senior Day 👏The brand new all-time NCAA scoring chief spoke with @AllisonW_Sports after her last common season dwelling recreation ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/tsHVTNWBlJ
— FOX Faculty Hoops (@CBBonFOX) March 3, 2024