Caitlin Clark has never scored fewer than eight points in a game during her Iowa career, and that’s all she needs to break the NCAA women’s basketball scoring record. And Iowa fans who have been filling Carver-Hawkeye Arena to capacity all season will do so again Thursday, this time anticipating a historic moment for the best player in program history.
Anyone who doesn’t have a ticket already will have to be prepared to shell out big bucks. The average price on the secondary market for a ticket to Thursday’s Michigan-Iowa contest is nearly $400.
“I’m excited. It’s going to be a very special night,” Clark said in a news conference. “I’m not anxious about it at all. We haven’t really talked a lot about it as a team. It’s just go out there and play basketball and have fun, and this is kind of what comes along with it.”
Clark has scored in single digits only once at Iowa. She had eight points and fouled out of a 77-67 loss at Northwestern on Jan. 9, 2021, when she was a freshman. It was the 10th game of her college career. Since then, 15 is her lowest…