Iowa guard Caitlin Clark became Division I’s all-time leading scorer for both men’s and women’s basketball on Sunday, passing LSU legend Pete Maravich.
Clark entered the sixth-ranked Hawkeyes’ meeting with No. 2 Ohio State needing 18 points to set the record. She accomplished the feat in the first half, breaking the mark with a pair of free throws with 0.3 seconds remaining until intermission.
Maravich scored 3,667 points from 1967-70.
It has been a historic season for Clark, who became the all-time leading scorer in Division I women’s basketball when she scored 49 points against Michigan on Feb. 15 to dethrone Kelsey Plum. Plum amassed 3,527 points at Washington from 2013-17.
Less than two weeks later, Clark posted 33 points against Minnesota to pass Kansas’ Lynette Woodard for the major-college women’s scoring record. Woodard had 3,649 points from 1977-81, when the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women had oversight of women’s college sports — not the NCAA.
Clark announced Thursday that she will not be returning to Iowa for a fifth season, declaring for the 2024 WNBA Draft.
–Field Level Media