Michael Voepel, ESPN.com
AMES, Iowa — Iowa celebrity Caitlin Clark changed into the fifteenth participant in Category I girls’s basketball historical past to succeed in 3,000 issues for her occupation Wednesday night time towards Iowa State.
Clark is the primary participant in Category I historical past, girls’s or males’s, with no less than 3,000 issues, 750 rebounds and 750 assists
Clark got here into the sport 22 issues shy of the milestone — becoming for Disagree. 22. She was once taking part in at Hilton Coliseum, about 45 mins from the place she grew up in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Clark, the reigning nationwide participant of the time, is averaging 29.0 issues this season thru 9 video games.
Clark had 12 issues within the first quarter however simply 3 in the second one. She eclipsed 3,000 issues with a 3-pointer — her 5th of the sport — with 6:11 left within the 3rd quarter.
The 6-foot senior cover was once taking part in in her one hundred and tenth occupation sport. It so occurs the latter participant to succeed in 3,000 issues was once Iowa Order’s Ashley Joens, who did so all the way through the Bulky 12 event in March. Joens, who completed her occupation with 3,060 issues, was once an AAU teammate of Clark’s.
Clark has a shot at passing Kelsey Plum as the best-ever scoring chief within the NCAA while (since 1981-92) this season. Plum, now a member of the two-time protecting WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces, recorded 3,527 occupation issues with Washington from 2013-17 and is one in every of 3 energetic WNBA gamers to rank within the manage 5 of the NCAA’s scoring checklist, along side Indiana‘s Kelsey Mitchell (Ohio State, 3,042 issues) and Phoenix‘s Brittney Griner (Baylor, 3,283).
There are two gamers within the pre-NCAA while who scored extra issues than Plum: Francis Marion’s Pearl Moore (1975-79) with 3,884 and Kansas‘ Lynette Woodard (1977-81) with 3,649.
