After scoring 33 points in Iowa’s 108-60 win over Minnesota on Wednesday night, pushing her career total to 3,650, Caitlin Clark has officially passed former Kansas Jayhawk Lynette Woodard (3,649 points), the AIAW large-school leading scorer, in the college basketball scoring ranks.
Clark also broke the NCAA women’s single-season record by sinking her 155th 3-pointer in the third quarter of the Hawkeyes’ game against the Golden Gophers. She finished Wednesday’s contest 8 for 14 from 3, bringing her career total to 156.
More history for Caitlin Clark 🔥
Clark has surpassed Lynette Woodard for the most points scored in major women’s college basketball history! #Hawkeyes pic.twitter.com/0cRvGjzZnP
— Iowa Women’s Basketball (@IowaWBB) February 29, 2024
Much attention had been given to Clark as she chased former Washington guard Kelsey Plum’s NCAA Division I scoring record (passing it on February 15), however, there was much scrutiny around this record chase as Woodard’s total was still higher. However, the NCAA doesn’t recognize Woodard’s scoring record in its own record books because she played at Kansas from 1978-81, just before the NCAA accepted women’s athletics in 1982. Starting in the late 60s and before 1982, female collegiate athletes participated in…
