MINNEAPOLIS — When it comes to the Big Ten women’s basketball tournament, Iowa‘s Caitlin Clark has maximized her opportunities. Sunday will mark her fourth Big Ten championship game, part of why she has become the tournament’s all-time leading scorer.
Clark nabbed that mark — yet another in her record-setting senior season — in Saturday’s semifinals as No. 2 seed Iowa beat No. 6 Michigan 95-68. With her 28 points, Clark has 293 (and counting) in the Big Ten tournament for her career. She also became the first Division I women’s player to score at least 1,000 points in multiple seasons.
She now has 1,020 points so far this season; she had 1,055 as a junior. Clark is 90 points from breaking the NCAA single-season scoring record of 1,109 set by Washington’s Kelsey Plum in 2016-17. Clark already broke Plum’s NCAA career scoring record — that came in the Hawkeyes’ regular-season win over Michigan on Feb. 15.
“Yeah, we were the lucky ones that got to be at Iowa when Caitlin broke the record, so we kind of were in the same environment today,” Michigan…
