Caitlin Clark’s storied college career came to a close on Sunday, and she leaves with no regrets. She walks away from the college game with two national championship games lost, but an excess of scoring records and attendance records won.
Clark finishes her time at Iowa with 3,951 career points, the D-I career scoring record, as well as the record for scoring in a single season. She is also the Big Ten’s all-time assist leader and leaves college as the first Division I women’s player to score at least 1,000 points in two different seasons, according to ESPN.
“It’s really hard to win these things. I think I probably know that better than most people by now,” Clark said after the game. “To be so close twice, it definitely hurts. But at the same time, we were right there. We battled. We took down some really great teams to get back to this point.”
Clark insisted after the game that she’s not going to sulk. Instead, she reflected Sunday on the entirety of her college career.
“Whether it’s the way the fans have supported me, the way I’ve been able to represent my state where I grew up, my family being at every single game — there’s not a regret in my mind of how things went,” Clark said. “I’ll be able to sleep…
