Caitlin Clark and No. 6 Iowa traveled to face Minnesota in a Large Ten showdown Wednesday evening, and earned a 108-60 blowout victory for the Hawkeyes. It was one other record-setting evening for Clark. And it wasn’t nearly her padding her factors whole, however reasonably how she did it. (See: A LOT of 3s.)
Clark, who now holds the NCAA Division I girls’s basketball all-time scoring report, got here into Wednesday needing simply 51 factors to cross Pete Maravich. Who’s Pistol Pete, you ask?
Maravich performed for LSU from 1967-70, scoring 3,667 factors in simply three years. He did so at a time when freshmen couldn’t play varsity basketball, there was no shot clock and no 3-point line.
Clark, who’s nicknamed “Ponytail Pete,” has one regular-season sport remaining and wishes simply 18 factors to high Maravich. The Hawkeyes will face No. 2 Ohio State in Iowa Metropolis on Sunday afternoon. Whereas that’s senior day, Clark has not mentioned whether or not she’s going to return for a attainable fifth 12 months – which she is eligible for due to the COVID season.
Tickets for that sport are averaging greater than $500.
OPINION:Caitlin Clark and her achievements stand on their very own. Cease evaluating her to Pistol Pete
Last: Iowa 108, Minnesota 60
Given how scorching she began, we in all probability ought to have seen this coming: Caitlin Clark notched her seventeenth profession triple-double in Iowa’s 108-60 win, tallying 33 factors, 12 assists and 10 rebounds.
It was merely one in all a handful of information that Clark tallied Wednesday evening in Iowa’s blowout win. Clark has formally scored extra factors that Lynette Woodard now, and hit extra 3s in a single season than some other participant.
Talking of 3s, Iowa made a season-high 21 in opposition to Minnesota. Clark went 8-of-14 from lengthy distance, however she was removed from the one one feeling it. Gabbie Marshall (16 factors, 4 3s), Taylor McCabe (15 factors, 5 3s), Kylie Feuerbach (13 factors, 4 3s) and Molly Davis (11 factors, one 3) all scored in double figures as effectively.
Iowa vs. Minnesota highlights: Caitlin Clark breaks Lynette Woodard report, closes in on Pistol Pete
Caitlin Clark passes Lynette Woodard
As Caitlin Clark has climbed up the scoring ladder this season, some have identified that whereas her scoring output is spectacular, it doesn’t match former Kansas standout Lynette Woodard.
Now, it does. In actual fact, it passes it.
With a 3 with 4:29 to play, Clark surpassed the longtime scoring chief in main school girls’s basketball, which Woodard set from 1978-81. That was earlier than the NCAA ran girls’s sports activities, so Woodard’s report has been confined to the AIAW report books. She’s mentioned that the NCAA wants to acknowledge and incorporate scoring information from the AIAW days, particularly as a result of they already do precisely that with teaching information.
For a lot of, Clark passing Woodard will legitimize Clark and all she’s completed.
Finish of 3Q: Iowa 86, Minnesota 48
Iowa continues its absurd taking pictures from 3, hitting 16 with 10 minutes nonetheless to play. At this level I’m simply ready for put up Hannah Stuelke to take an try from deep.
In the meantime, Caitlin Clark has notched her second consecutive triple-double, and the seventeenth of her profession. Via three quarters she has 30 factors, 11 assists and 10 rebounds. She’s additionally an environment friendly 11-of-17 from the sphere, together with 7-of-11 from 3.
Iowa is dominating in each side of the sport, from factors within the paint (36-16) to bench factors (28-9) to quick break factors (30-1).
And we’ve nonetheless received an entire different quarter to go. This isn’t a super senior evening for Minnesota, that’s for positive.
One other (3-point) report for Caitlin Clark
Ho-hum, one other day, one other milestone for Caitlin Clark.
This time, along with her seventh 3 of the evening — with 7:16 left to within the third, no much less — Clark has set an NCAA single-season report for made 3s, with 155. She surpasses former Idaho standout Taylor Pierce, who hit 154 treys within the 2018-19 season.
It’s value stating that the profession 3-point report belongs to Taylor Robertson, the sharpshooter who performed at Oklahoma from 2018-2023. She had 537 in her profession. Clark now has 502. May she catch Robertson?
Halftime: Iowa 53, Minnesota 26
It appears inevitable that Caitlin Clark goes to set a brand new career-high for made 3s in a single sport. Her excessive is 9, she’s already received six and we have now 20 extra minutes left to play. Goodness.
She leads all scorers with 21 factors on 7-of-11 taking pictures general. Within the first quarter, she scored or assisted on 21 of Iowa’s 30 factors.
However Clark’s removed from the one particular person connecting from deep: As a workforce Iowa’s already hit 12 (12!) 3s, and is taking pictures 57% from the arc. Not dangerous in any respect. The Hawkeyes are pouring it on from Kylie Feuerbach has three and Gabbie Marshall has two. (Marshall, by the way in which, has formally hit 1,000 profession factors.)
For good measure, Clark additionally has six assists, together with this nifty bounce cross to Marshall within the lane:
Finish of 1Q: Iowa 30, Minnesota 16
One good approach to construct a 14-point lead over the primary interval is to reel off a number of 9-0 runs. The primary one was all Caitlin Clark (unsurprising!) and the second concerned a number of Hawkeyes. And that’s how Iowa has a 30-16 lead.
That, and Clark already tallying 15 factors on 5-of-7 taking pictures. Not too shabby, particularly after a number of tough video games the final couple weeks the place Clark didn’t shoot very effectively. She scored 35 on the Golden Gophers final time. Does she high that tonight?
As a workforce, Iowa is taking pictures 61% — that’s not the way you pull an upset, Minnesota. And Clark isn’t the one one with a scorching hand: Kylie Feuerbach can also be 2-of-3 from long-distance.
Iowa additionally leads in quick break factors, 10-0. Proper now, the Hawkeyes are scoring from anyplace they need.
7:05, 1Q: Iowa 12, Minnesota 2
Nothing like somewhat 9-0 run from the reigning nationwide participant of the 12 months to open the sport.
Caitlin Clark reeled off 9 straight factors — together with a emblem 3, in fact — earlier than Minnesota lastly received on the board. Then Clark responded by … hitting one other 3.
She’s 51 away from the report and logic would say she’ll break it Sunday on senior day when Iowa hosts Ohio State. However perhaps Clark has different plans, on condition that she already has 12 factors on 4-of-4 taking pictures. She’s additionally grabbed three rebounds already.
Looks as if it’s gonna be an extended evening for the Golden Gophers.
The right way to watch Iowa at Minnesota
The Hawkeyes (24-4, 13-3 Large Ten) journey to Williams Area in Minneapolis to tackle the Gophers (15-12, 5-11) on Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET. The sport shall be proven on the Peacock streaming service. Cindy Brunson will deal with the play-by-play duties, with Julianna Viani because the analyst.
The place is Iowa ranked in USA TODAY Sports activities Coaches Ballot?
The Hawkeyes fell again to No. 6 after a loss to Indiana. After tonight’s sport in Minnesota, they’ve one regular-season sport left, at residence on senior day in opposition to No. 2 Ohio State.
The pressure to name Caitlin Clark’s eventual 3,668th level a milestone or necessary second for ladies’s sports activities is the form of illogical nonsense that may solely serve to create an pointless backlash, Dan Wolken writes.
Caitlin Clark stats
Clark enters Wednesday’s sport with 3,617 profession factors, simply 51 from passing Pete Maravich on the all-time scoring checklist. She is averaging 32.1 factors per sport this season and has two regular-season video games remaining, plus Large Ten and NCAA match video games.
What’s Caitlin Clark’s highest-scoring sport?
Clark’s highest-scoring sport was additionally her record-breaking efficiency on Feb. 15 in opposition to Michigan within the 2023-24 season, when she scored 49 factors. Clark shot 16-for-31 that sport, together with 9-for-18 from 3. She additionally grabbed 5 rebounds and handed out 13 assists within the 106-89 win.
Do you’re keen on Caitlin Clark or do you LOVE Caitlin Clark?
Love her, hate her, like her or assume she’s overrated, one factor is for positive: The senior guard from Iowa has severe sport. Unsure precisely the place you stand? We may also help you out. This USA TODAY Sports activities quiz will reveal the reply to a vital query as we prep for March Insanity: What sort of Caitlin Clark fan are you? — Lindsay Schnell
Caitlin Clark game-by-game factors this season
This is a breakdown of Clark’s scoring this season for the Hawkeyes:
- vs. Illinois, 2/25/24: 24 factors
- at Indiana, 2/22/24: 24 factors
- vs. Michigan, 2/15/24: 49 factors (season-high, faculty report for single sport)
- vs. Nebraska, 2/11/24: 31 factors
- vs. Penn State, 2/8/24: 27 factors
- at Maryland, 2/3/24: 38 factors
- at Northwestern, 1/31/24: 35 factors
- vs. Nebraska, 1/27/2024: 38 factors
- at Ohio State, 1/21/2024: 45 factors
- vs. Wisconsin, 1/16/2024: 32 factors
- vs. Indiana, 1/13/2024: 30 factors
- at Purdue, 1/10/2024: 26 factors
- at Rutgers, 1/5/2024: 29 factors
- vs. Michigan State, 1/2/2024: 40 factors
- vs. Minnesota, 12/30/2023: 35 factors
- vs. Loyola Chicago, 12/21/2023: 35 factors
- vs. Cleveland State, 12/16/2023: 38 factors
- at Wisconsin, 12/10/2023: 28 factors
- vs. Iowa State, 12/6/2023: 35 factors
- vs. Bowling Inexperienced, 12/2/2023: 24 factors
- vs. Kansas State, 11/26/2023: 32 factors
- vs. Florida Gulf Coast, 11/25/2023: 21 factors
- vs. Purdue Fort Wayne, 11/24/2023: 29 factors
- vs. Drake, 11/19/2023: 35 factors
- vs. Kansas State, 11/16/2023: 24 factors
- at UNI, 11/12/2023: 24 factors
- vs. Virginia Tech, 11/9/2023: 44 factors
- vs. FDU, 11/6/2023: 28 factors
Is Caitlin Clark a senior?
Sure, Clark is a senior … however she may come again subsequent 12 months and be an excellent senior if she needs.
Although she’s projected to be the No. 1 choose within the 2024 WNBA draft, she may return to Iowa Metropolis subsequent season. As a result of Clark was a freshman within the 2020-21 season, she has a COVID 12 months (mainly, that season didn’t rely towards anybody’s eligibility).
The Biggest Present in Sports activities is buzzing alongside, barnstorming the nation, hitting emblem threes and breaking information as February works its approach to the insanity of March, bringing us nearer to the reply to 2 intriguing questions:
Will Caitlin Clark keep at Iowa for her fifth COVID 12 months or will she go to the WNBA? And, is she going to signify the USA on the Olympics this summer time in Paris?
The primary query is completely in her management and all hers to reply. Does Clark, a fourth-year senior who will get a COVID 12 months if she needs it, come again to Iowa to sink three-point photographs and thread no-look passes and pack arenas across the Large Ten and the nation, which shall be mainly one and the identical by the point the 2024-25 season begins? Or does she go to the WNBA, the place she would be the No. 1 choose within the draft and instantly change into the best-known professional within the girls’s sport, even when there would be the inevitable studying curve enjoying with and in opposition to the perfect gamers on the planet?— Christine Brennan
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