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Kevin Pelton
ESPN Senior Writer
- Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series
- Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers
- Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system
Caitlin Clark is one of the best 3-point shooters in college history. The Iowa Hawkeyes senior hit her signature logo 3-pointer to become the all-time Division I women’s scoring leader in mid-February, then added six long-range bombs in a game a little more than two weeks later to pass Pete Maravich for most career points in Division I history for men and women.
JuJu Watkins is the presumptive national freshman of the year and ranks second in Division I women’s scoring this season — behind Clark – and has the USC Trojans one win away from their first Final Four since 1986. She’s eight points shy of breaking the single-season freshman scoring mark.
But as Clark and Watkins lead their teams into Monday’s Elite Eight — the Hawkeyes face LSU in an NCAA title game rematch in Albany (7 p.m. ET, ESPN) and the Trojans play UConn (9 p.m. ET, ESPN) in Portland — their…
