When Will Caitlin Clark Break The All-Time Scoring Record?
When Will Caitlin Clark Break The All-Time Scoring Record?
Let's track Clark’s progress against both Kelsey Plum and Pete Maravich’s all-time records for points.
Caitlin Clark is tearing up the basketball courts again in 2023-24, leading all NCAA Division-I scorers in points per game by a wide margin. As a result, the Iowa Hawkeyes star is rewriting the all-time record books with her career numbers in the scoring column.
To help track her progress, I’ll be updating the chart below, which measures Clark’s total career points, along with where she will be through each remaining game this season if she scores at her current PPG average. With those pieces of information, you can see if when Clark is tracking to break broke Kelsey Plum’s women’s record (3,527 points) — and how much danger Pete Maravich’s overall D-I record (3,667) is was in, too.
With this sick logo 3, Clark broke Plum’s record early in Iowa’s game against Michigan on Thursday, Feb. 15:
(She then tacked on 41 more points for good measure, because of course she did.)
On Feb. 28, Clark broke the major-college record of 3,649 points, held by Kansas’ Lynette Woodard. (Woodard’s number isn’t officially recognized by the NCAA because she played in the AIAW — which operated women’s basketball before the NCAA began to do so in 1982 — from 1977-81.)
And finally, Clark cleared Maravich by 18 points in the regular season finale against Ohio State on Mar. 3, finishing off her record-breaking regular season with room to spare. It was truly a remarkable performance by a remarkable player.
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