Caitlin Clark now the general main NCAA basketball scorer, breaks ‘Pistol Pete’ Maravich’s report of three,667 profession factors

Two weeks after she broke the report for ladies, Caitlin Clark has grow to be NCAA Division I basketball’s general high scorer, interval.

The Iowa Hawkeyes star went into Sunday’s recreation towards the Ohio State Buckeyes needing 17 factors to interrupt “Pistol Pete” Maravich’s report of three,667 profession factors, which stood for greater than 50 years. And with a second-quarter free throw, she grew to become the top-scoring participant — man or lady — in NCAA basketball historical past.

Clark, 22, earned the ladies’s report Feb. 15 when she scored eight factors in a recreation towards Michigan and handed Kelsey Plum’s 3,527 profession factors in her profession, which led to 2017. She went on that night time to attain a career-high 49 factors.  

“I am simply actually grateful, actually, to have the ability to be right here and make so lots of my desires come true,” Clark mentioned after the history-making recreation, which Iowa received, 106-89.

She put up 33 factors towards Minnesota on Wednesday to cement her place atop the all-time profession factors amongst ladies to play for main faculties. The report had been held by Kansas nice Lynette Woodard, who scored 3,650 factors. (Woodard performed from 1977 to 1981, when ladies’s sports activities had been ruled by the Affiliation for Intercollegiate Athletics for Ladies.)

The general report comes on Clark’s remaining regular-season recreation as a school athlete. Although the 22-year-old senior has one other 12 months of eligibility, she introduced earlier this week that she would enter the WNBA draft subsequent month.

Her remaining season has been full of massive moments and massive numbers: She’s averaging 32 factors per recreation, however at the very least 4 instances this season she has racked up 40 factors. The 6-foot guard from West Des Moines can also be averaging greater than 8 assists per recreation, and he or she not too long ago recorded the 1,000th help of her faculty profession, making her solely the sixth lady in faculty basketball historical past to take action.

With the scoring report in hand, Clark is now doubt seeking to lead her group, 25-4, to a nationwide title. Final 12 months, they made a run to the NCAA title recreation, the place they misplaced to LSU.

Maravich’s NCAA males’s scoring report was 3,667 factors, which he set taking part in for LSU from 1968 to 1970.

After faculty, Maravich went on to an NBA profession during which he was a five-time All-Star. He performed for the Atlanta Hawks and the then-New Orleans Jazz and one season with the Boston Celtics. Maravich died in 1988 in Pasadena, California, at 40 years outdated.