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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu Feb 29, 2024, 08:58 AM Feb 2024

Caitlin Clark breaks Lynette Woodard's forgotten scoring record, 18 points from passing Pete Maravich

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Caitlin Clark breaks Lynette Woodard's forgotten scoring record, 18 points from passing Pete Maravich

Jack Baer
Staff writer
Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 8:09 AM EST · 2 min read

Caitlin Clark broke the NCAA women's basketball scoring record two weeks ago, but it was only on Wednesday she became the all-time leading scorer among female college basketball players.

The Iowa star passed Lynette Woodard's 3,649 career points with Kansas, erasing a significant asterisk in the NCAA's all-time scoring list. She also moved to only 18 points shy of breaking Pete Maravich's 3,667 mark for the NCAA scoring record among both men and women.

With an average of more than 30 points per game, Clark is well on pace to pass Maravich in her next game, the Iowa regular-season finale against No. 2 Ohio State on Sunday. ... Minutes before passing Woodard, Clark grabbed another official NCAA record, scoring her 155th 3-pointer of the season to break the single-season mark previously held by Idaho's Taylor Pierce in 2019.

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Woodard scored her points between 1977 and 1981, a time when women's college basketball was governed by the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. The NCAA didn't officially sanction women's college basketball until 1982 and does not acknowledge any players or stats from before that year. ... So for decades, Woodard stood above every female college basketball player, but wasn't recognized as the all-time leading scorer.

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Caitlin Clark breaks Lynette Woodard's forgotten scoring record, 18 points from passing Pete Maravich (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 OP
Maravich did his in three seasons. House of Roberts Feb 2024 #1
Thanks. I did not know or remember that. And good morning. NT mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 #2
Did the three-point line exist during Pistol's time playing? dem4decades Feb 2024 #3
No, and there was no shot clock yet either. House of Roberts Feb 2024 #4
Pete would have had a billion points with a shot clock and a three-point line. okay, maybe that's an dem4decades Feb 2024 #5

dem4decades

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5. Pete would have had a billion points with a shot clock and a three-point line. okay, maybe that's an
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 10:43 AM
Feb 2024

exaggeration.

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