WNBAB #49 The Caitlin Clark Story

WNBAB #49
The Caitlin Clark Story

University of Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark already stands alone as the greatest scorer in NCAA Division I history—for both men’s and women’s basketball. Now, her focus is on winning an elusive national championship.

For the second straight year, Clark—who, earlier this season, passed “Pistol Pete” Maravich for most career points in D-1 hoops—has led the Hawkeyes to the Final Four of the NCAA women’s tournament. The star guard and her team face perennial power Connecticut and its top player, Paige Bueckers, on Friday with a trip to the championship game on the line.

Clark, a 22-year-old senior, rose to national prominence last year with a record-setting March Madness performance. She became the first player to record a triple-double with 40 or more points in tournament history, men’s or women’s, and led Iowa to the national championship game against LSU.

That momentum carried over into 2024, as Clark passed current WNBA player Kelsey Plum and Maravich on their respective scoring lists and now has 3,900 career points. That includes 41 points in Iowa’s most recent game, a 94-87 Elite Eight victory in a heated rematch with LSU.

This year’s March Madness tournament will be the last for Clark. On February 29, she declared for the upcoming WNBA draft and became the presumptive favorite to join the Indiana Fever as the first overall selection. Here’s everything you need to know about Clark’s career as a hoops phenom, as well as her highly-anticipated college finale.

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