Like just about every level of the sport, women’s college basketball has been consumed by the three-point revolution. Long-range attempts have risen by more than 10% in the last decade, and a certain audacious Hawkeye has drawn millions of new eyes to the sport thanks to her audacious shooting performances.
Here’s a look at the ten best shooters leading women’s college basketball into a brave new world:
1. Caitlin Clark, Iowa (27.8 PPG, 38.9 3PT%)
While Clark seems to dominate just about every hardwood category these days in Iowa City, shooting is the foundation upon which her rising celebrity was built. Clark immediately led the nation in scoring as a freshman and finished fourth in three-point attempts, later overcoming a sophomore slump to post similarly transcendent numbers last season en route to a national championship game and a Naismith Player of the Year award.
Clark doesn’t quite match the dead-eye shooting clips featured below, but her percentage is hindered by the eighth-highest usage rate in college basketball and a willingness to shoot from just about any cornfield in Iowa — when the Globetrotters finally win their four-point line crusade, Clark will cruise to an effective field goal crown.
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