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☆ Caitlin Clark now the overall leading NCAA basketball scorer, breaks 'Pistol Pete' Maravich’s record of 3,667 career points
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Phil Helsel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Two weeks after she broke the record for women, Caitlin Clark has become NCAA Division I basketball's overall top scorer, period. The Iowa Hawkeyes star went into Sunday's game against the Ohio State Buckeyes needing 17 points to break "Pistol Pete" Maravich's record of 3,667 career points, which stood for more than 50 years. Clark, 22, earned the women's record Feb. 15 when she scored eight points in a game against Michigan and passed Kelsey Plum's 3,527 career points in her career, which ended in 2017. She put up 33 points against Minnesota on Wednesday to cement her place atop the all-time career points among women to play for major colleges. Maravich's NCAA men's scoring record was 3,667 points, which he set playing for LSU from 1968 to 1970.

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☆ Caitlin Clark: Iowa’s NCAA record-breaking basketball supernova who everyone is talking about
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

In her third season with the team, Iowa reached its first ever NCAA women’s basketball national championship game, though the Hawkeyes eventually lost to LSU. Jensen remembers Clark saying, “Now, what else can we do?” moments after becoming the all-time top scorer in collegiate women’s basketball. I would love to see that.”Clark signs an autograph after becoming the all-time NCAA women's college basketball top scorer. Matthew Putney/APWhat is undeniable are the eyeballs Clark has brought to college women’s basketball. Reese's gesture toward Clark during the second half of the 2023 NCAA women’s basketball national championship game became one of the biggest talking points of the college basketball season.

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(AP) — Jaz Shelley's 3-pointer with 30 seconds left gave Nebraska its first lead as the Cornhuskers rallied from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat No. Clark scored 31 points but missed her final six shots, including one just before the buzzer. Photos You Should See View All 21 ImagesHannah Steulke's layup with 9:22 left gave Iowa (22-3, 11-2) its biggest lead, at 71-57. Clark's 3-point try nicked off the front of the rim before Shelley made two free throws with 18.1 seconds left. Shelley made three 3-pointers, including two straight late in the second quarter to keep Iowa from pulling away.

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2 in The Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll Monday as the star guard moved within striking distance of the NCAA career scoring record. 2 has been a revolving door lately, South Carolina has maintained a strong grip atop the poll, once again the unanimous No. 3 North Carolina State, No. They've also beaten four current Top 25 teams (Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Syracuse and Louisville). ___Get poll alerts and updates on AP Top 25 basketball throughout the season.

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2 Kansas State matched its best ranking ever after a chaotic week that saw nearly half of the AP Top 25 lose at least one game. The Gamecocks received all 35 first-place votes Monday in the latest Associated Press women's basketball poll after their 76-70 road victory over then-No. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesStanford and North Carolina State followed Iowa in the poll. ___Get poll alerts and updates on AP Top 25 basketball throughout the season. Sign up here AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball

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Caitlin Clark of Iowa is a unanimous pick for The Associated Press preseason women's basketball All-America team for the second consecutive season. Last season's AP player of the year averaged 27.8 points, 8.6 assists and 7.1 rebounds. I feel more confident in my body than I ever have,” said Bueckers, who was the AP player of the year as a freshman in 2021. Clark, Reese and Holmes were on the first team while Kitley and Brink were on the second team. The AP started choosing a preseason All-America team before the 1994-95 season.

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