On Sunday, Iowa player Caitlin Clark overtook LSU icon Pete Maravich to become Division I’s all-time top scorer in both men’s and women’s basketball.
Clark needed eighteen points to break the record going into the sixth-ranked Hawkeyes’ matchup with No. 2 Ohio State. With just 0.3 seconds left before halftime, she broke the record with a pair of free throws to complete the accomplishment.
Maravich finished 1967–70 with 3,667 points.
Clark’s season has been historic. On February 15, she overthrew Kelsey Plum and became the all-time top scorer in Division I women’s basketball with 49 points. Between 2013 and 2017, Plum scored 3,527 points at Washington.
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.
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