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College basketball fans won’t soon forget where Caitlin Clark was when the Iowa star broke the all-time scoring record.
The Hawkeyes revealed the on-court decal they placed at Carver-Hawkeye Arena to commemorate Clark’s record-breaking moment:
Iowa Women’s Basketball @IowaWBB
Made her mark. @CaitlinClark22 x #Hawkeyes pic.twitter.com/MqxXkSvPH5
In the first quarter of a 106-89 win over Michigan, the senior guard spotted up from deep to nail a three-pointer and leapfrog Washington legend Kelsey Plum in the record books.
It was a fitting way for Clark to make history. Long-range jumpers have become one of her trademarks, and she’s helping to widen the court in the same way Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry did in the NBA.
Clark wound up with 49 points against the Wolverines, setting a new career high and a single-game record for Iowa. She shot 16-of-31 from the field, including 9-of-18 from beyond the arc.
Heading into the contest, the reigning national player of the year was only eight points away from passing Plum, so now she can open quite a wide berth atop the scoring charts. Iowa has three games left in the regular season on top of the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments.
USC freshman JuJu Watkins is already on a trajectory that could see her challenge Clark’s record, but Clark will have set the bar pretty high when she leaves Iowa City.
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