Caitlin Clark has collected more points than any other player in NCAA women’s basketball history. That doesn’t mean she has finished climbing the charts.
Clark, who has logged 3,569 career points, could still set herself apart as the most prolific scorer in the sport. The Iowa senior guard recently broke former Washington guard Kelsey Plum’s record of 3,527 points, so she’ll appear at the top of the NCAA record book for that.
Though she won’t technically break these records, her potential to accumulate enough points to move past men’s top scorer Pete Maravich (3,667 points), AIAW large-college record-holder Lynette Woodard (3,649 points) and AIAW small-college leader Pearl Moore (4,061) is noteworthy.
Clark needs 99 points to surpass Maravich, who set the men’s record in 1970 at LSU. He averaged an astounding 44.2 points per game and reached this feat in only three seasons of competition (freshmen couldn’t play varsity) and without a 3-point line. Averaging a nation-leading 32.8 points per game, Clark is on pace to pass Pistol Pete in three games, which would come Feb. 28 at Minnesota.
Woodard’s record, set in the AIAW era of women’s sports predating the NCAA era, was set at Kansas in 1981, just a year before the NCAA recognized women’s basketball. Her…
