As the Iowa Hawkeyes‘ Caitlin Clark gets closer to the NCAA women’s basketball career scoring mark, record holder Kelsey Plum of the Las Vegas Aces is applauding the senior guard.
“I’m actually very grateful to pass that baton. I’m very happy for her,” Plum said Friday on a video call from a USA Basketball women’s team camp that runs Friday-Sunday at Barclays Center in New York.
Then-Washington Huskies star Plum set the record on Feb. 25, 2017, in Seattle when she scored 57 points in the Huskies’ 84-77 victory over Utah. She finished her college career with 3,527 points. Clark is currently at 3,424 and is averaging a Division I-leading 32.1 points per game.
The No. 3 Hawkeyes face Maryland on Saturday (8 p.m. ET, Fox) and if Clark maintains her current average, the record will come Feb. 15 at Iowa when the Hawkeyes face Michigan.
Plum was the WNBA’s No. 1 draft pick by San Antonio in April 2017 and has won the past two WNBA titles with the Aces. She also won a gold medal with the United States’ 3×3 women’s hoops team at the…
