Caitlin Clark has broken the NCAA women’s basketball career scoring record, passing Kelsey Plum’s 3,527-point mark Thursday night at the start of the Iowa Hawkeyes game against the Michigan Wolverines.
Clark scored the first eight points of the game for Iowa, breaking the record on a deep three-pointer.
The record-breaking shot came just a little over two minutes into the game. Following Michigan’s next possession, which came up empty, Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder called timeout to allow Clark’s teammates and the fans to celebrate the milestone.
Clark came into Thursday’s game averaging 32.1 points and 8.3 assists per game this season, according to ESPN, both the highest in NCAA Division 1 women’s basketball. She also averages the most three-pointers per game at 5.2.
This season, she became the sixth woman ever to have 1,000 career assists, and is the only player in NCAA Division I history to score more than 3,000 points and have 1,000 assists, according to CBS Sports.
Clark also has a shot at breaking the all-time Division I scoring record of 3,667 points, set by LSU’s Pete Maravich, who played from 1967 to 1970. While the Hawkeyes, ranked no. 4 coming into Thursday, are sure to make the NCAA tournament, Clark could feasibly break the record in the four remaining regular season games left after Thursday’s matchup with Michigan.
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