Posted on 03/03/2024 3:40:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Iowa star holds the record in both men's and women's Division I basketball.
University of Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark has reached another milestone in her college career, breaking the NCAA all-time scoring record, a record untouched for more than 50 years -- until now.
Clark broke the all-time scoring record Sunday against Ohio State, hitting 18 points in the game with a technical free throw at the end of the second quarter.
The 22-year-old now holds 3,668 points and counting, surpassing "Pistol" Pete Maravich, who scored 3,667 points while playing at Louisiana State University in 1970.
Clark broke the NCAA women's record -- which was previously held by former University of Washington star Kelsey Plum, who racked up 3,527 points -- in her game against Michigan on Feb. 15.
University of Iowa's Caitlin Clark breaks NCAA women's basketball scoring record Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James congratulated Clark on Sunday, writing on X, formerly Twitter, "CONGRATS @CaitlinClark22 on becoming the All-Time leading scorer!!" (James on Saturday broke his own record for most career points in NBA history, topping 40,000.)
Before breaking the NCAA all-time women's scoring record, Clark recorded 1,000 career assists in her game against the University of Nebraska–Lincoln on Feb. 11, becoming just the sixth player in NCAA women's basketball history to do so.
After getting cut from high school team, 20-year-old now plays college basketball Clark has so far secured brand endorsement deals -- thanks to NIL, which allows college athletes to be paid for such endorsements -- with Gatorade, Nike, State Farm and Buick, totaling nearly $800,000.
She celebrated her 22nd birthday this year by gifting her teammates new sneakers.
Despite being eligible to play for the Hawkeyes for another season due to the COVID-19 waiver her first year,
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EuroLeague is fun to watch, the fans are the show.
” Had she played against men,”
Do you think you could beat her?
Good.
IF they played her really tough she'd be hard pressed to get a shot off.
She is more skilled than me. But I am much stronger than her. What are the rules? Playground basketball? (Think Bad Boys from the late 80s and early 90s with Bill Laimbeer?
But if he can hit a home run, so can you.
Loved those teams, especially Rodman before he got 'weird'.
No record yet. I remember Biden saying something about his scoring record at Delaware. I believe it’s close to 8000 points.
Rodman was “trans” before that became a thing.
Pistol Pete was not allowed to play as a Freshman, so it is comparing apples to oranges.
The average player could amass thousands of points if given enough time.
When he was with the Pistons, he was still fairly normal, and the hardest working player in the game, still the greatest rebounder who ever played.
I remember watching this game live, probably the greatest single performance I’ve ever seen.
Pistol Pete Maravich Greatest Game EVER! 68 Points Highlights vs Knicks (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEKSF9tKoM
Back in High School, everbody wanted to either be Doctor J, or Pistol Pete.
ahhhh is your ego that fragile
He started to become a little bit eccentric in San Antonio. But he wasn’t that bad until he came to Chicago.
A hell of a game.
Great atmosphere.
Good on Clark👍
She’s just phenomenal, and watching them BEAT OSU made it all that much more delightful.
She’ll never see this, but I wish her all the luck in the world as life unfolds.
“I don’t think this means she is better than Maravich...”
Starting in the NBA in the late 50’s, the roles of players were created and the people on the floor were played for their roles. That reached college competitions about ten years later.
I don’t think anyone is better than anyone else...just different. Maravich was a tremendous ball handler and good shooter. He was a fair assist player about the same as Clark. I don’t know if she was a shooting guard or a point guard but she, at six feet even, was a good rebounder averaging around seven a game. Her playing weight of around one fifty five, a wide body, might help her there. But rebounders at the next level are numerous. Her game may have to change.
But her test is yet to come if she enters the WNBA where the game is faster and plays bigger. An example of a great normal height player in college that went to the NBA and ended up a good journeyman player there was Calvin Murphy from Niagra. Great in college, incredible scorer, but his height was a problem for the team as they had to help him a lot with offside support or double team on defense.
Numbers are great. But the after college game is different. I wish her luck if she goes that way. But that six foot height may be a problem at that next level.
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The average height of a WNBA player is 6 ft 65 in. And she’s a point guard, which I would guess has the lowest average height of any of the WNBA positions.
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