Caitlin Clark Is Poised To Celebrate Iowa Senior Day By Breaking Pete Maravich’s NCAA Scoring Record – News18

The stage is about for the coronation of Caitlin Clark because the all-time NCAA Division I scoring chief when sixth-ranked Iowa closes the common season towards No. 2 Ohio State at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday.

Four days after she broke Lynette Woodard’s main faculty girls’s document, Clark would cross Pete Maravich’s whole of three,617 factors if she scores 18 towards the Buckeyes.

Woodard was among the many attendees at Carver-Hawkeye Arena to assist Clark rejoice senior day. Also readily available had been basketball nice Maya Moore, who was Clark’s favourite participant, and Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan.

On Thursday, Clark introduced she would enter the 2024 WNBA draft and skip the fifth 12 months of eligibility accessible to athletes who competed in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. She is projected to be the No. 1 general decide by the Indiana Fever, and the WNBA already is seeing an increase in ticket gross sales.

Logitix, which researches costs on ticket resale platforms, reported a median sale value of $598 for a ticket to this recreation bought since Feb. 1.

“Listen, this is the greatest ticket on the planet right now,” Woodard stated in an interview with ESPN earlier than the sport. “Hey, I’m going to enjoy this right now.”

Clark is all however assured of 1 or two extra appearances on the enviornment in Iowa City after Sunday. Iowa is projected to be a No. 2 seed for the NCAA Tournament, which means it will be at residence for the primary two rounds.

Pearl Moore of Francis Marion owns the general girls’s document with 4,061 factors from 1975-79 on the small-faculty degree within the AIAW. Moore had 177 factors at Anderson Junior College earlier than enrolling at Francis Marion.

Clark is 411 behind Moore, and he or she has solely three to 10 extra video games left in an Iowa uniform relying on how far the Hawkeyes advance within the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments.

If Clark passes Maravich, the accomplishment will probably be topic to scrutiny.

Maravich’s all-time scoring mark is without doubt one of the extra outstanding in sports activities historical past: It was set in simply 83 video games throughout three seasons from 1967 to 1970. There was no shot clock or 3-level line in these days. The 3-level line was adopted in 1986.

Maravich averaged 44.2 factors per recreation. He scored greater than 60 in a recreation 4 occasions, topping out at 69 towards Alabama on Feb. 7, 1970.

Clark averages 28.3 factors for her profession and will probably be taking part in in her one hundred and thirtieth recreation Sunday. Her profession-greatest output was 49 factors towards Michigan on Feb. 15, when she handed Kelsey Plum because the NCAA girls’s Division I profession scoring chief.

Clark has 54 video games with not less than 30 factors, probably the most of any participant in males’s or girls’s faculty basketball over the past 25 years. She has six triple-doubles this season and 17 in her profession.

With Clark the headliner, Iowa has helped promote out or break an attendance document in 30 of 32 video games this season. The solely two video games that didn’t occur had been at a Thanksgiving match in Florida.

“She is just a phenomenal, phenomenal player who has helped change the women’s game,” Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico stated. “She has helped bring an enormous amount of light and respect and viewers to the women’s game. She is awesome. She is a competitor.

“You either love her or you hate her, but you normally hate her because of how hard she competes. I have a tremendous amount of respect for somebody who is that competitive and has never met a shot she didn’t like.”

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AP freelance author John Bohnenkamp in Iowa City, Iowa, and AP Sports Writer Larry Lage in Ann Arbor, Michigan, contributed to this report.

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