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 girls, Caitlin Clark has grow to be NCAA Division I basketball’s general high scorer, interval.

The Iowa Hawkeyes star went into Sunday’s recreation in opposition to 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 girl — in NCAA basketball historical past.

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

“I’m just really grateful, honestly, to be able to be here and make so many of my dreams come true,” Clark stated after the history-making recreation, which Iowa gained, 106-89.

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

The general report comes on Clark’s final regular-season game as a college 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 ultimate season has been full of huge moments and massive numbers: She’s averaging 32 factors per recreation, however not less than 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 lately recorded the 1,000th help of her faculty profession, making her solely the sixth girl in faculty basketball historical past to take action.

With the scoring report in hand, Clark is now doubt seeking to lead her crew, 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 wherein 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 previous.