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Last Updated: February 14, 2024, 00:01 IST
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It’s a busy week forward as Caitlin Clark has her eyes set on breaking the NCAA scoring document whereas Brittney Griner will return residence to Baylor to have her jersey retired.
It’s a busy week forward as Caitlin Clark has her eyes set on breaking the NCAA scoring document whereas Brittney Griner will return residence to Baylor to have her jersey retired.
Clark wants eight factors to move Kelsey Plum for essentially the most factors ever scored within the NCAA period. She’ll get her first probability on Thursday when Iowa hosts Michigan. Clark had 31 factors within the fourth-ranked Hawkeyes’ loss to Nebraska on Sunday when the group blew a 14-level lead and their star didn’t rating within the fourth quarter.
“You can’t get too caught up in one loss,” Clark stated. “All everybody needs right now is a boost of confidence, and I know I can give it to them.”
She now has 3,520 profession factors and has downplayed its significance not too long ago saying that the scoring chase hasn’t been a distraction to her or the group.
”When it occurs, it occurs. It’s actually not going to have an effect on my life that a lot. I’m simply going to maintain going about my enterprise as I’ve the final 4 years,” she stated. “Pointing to my teammates and hopefully leading this team to reach our goals.”
Clark has solely scored in single digits as soon as in her profession and that was again when she was a freshman.
A pair days after Clark’s subsequent try for the document, Griner will return to Baylor to have her No. 42 jersey retired when the twenty first-ranked Bears host Texas Tech. Griner stated she hasn’t been to a recreation since her senior yr in 2013 when Baylor was shocked by Louisville within the NCAA Tournament.
“It will be my first time catching a game and I’ll happy to be back on campus. I’ll be full of emotions,” Griner stated at USA Basketball coaching camp earlier this month.
Griner stated that she was a bit unhappy that the group now not performs on the Ferrell Center, however was excited that the Bears do have a brand new state-of-the-artwork facility.
“They deserved that so much,” she stated.
With a bit of over a month left earlier than the NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed, groups are beginning to really feel a bit of extra stress to strengthen their resumes. A few groups that might most likely use just a few extra victories down the stretch to safe an NCAA berth embrace Vanderbilt, Maryland, Kansas and Iowa State. The NCAA can have its first reveal of the highest 16 groups at this level of the season on Thursday night time.
UCLA acquired a lift with Lauren Betts enjoying for the primary time in just a few weeks after she was sidelined for 4 video games for an undisclosed medical motive. She had six factors and 9 rebounds in her first recreation again — a win over Arizona. Betts then put up 18 factors in a victory over Arizona State. UCLA travels to face Oregon State and Oregon this weekend.
There a few huge convention tilts this week with Louisville internet hosting Virginia Tech on Sunday and N.C. State visiting Notre Dame on Thursday. The ACC is vast open with six groups inside two losses of one another on the prime of the standings.
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