Caitlin Clark acknowledges & admires women's basketball players who paved the way 🤩 _ SportsCenter

about Caitlin Clark number Iowa number six Iowa visiting Minnesota. You see her average 32 points a game against Minnesota fans in a line. We've seen this all season long. They're there to see her and she came out like, yo, I'm gonna give you what I got and yo, that's plenty. First shot three bucket less than a minute later off the bounce Clark and one. She made the free throw six nothing. And then from literally the M 90 run by Clark herself. Next possession Clark. Let's see how funky we can get from everywhere. 12 to run 498 career threes. That's most in Big 10 women's history. But clearly she was not done. Her game was on all night like the porch light. Even with the defender in her face, it didn't matter. She had the first 15 points the game for Iowa. We're still in the first quarter. 15 points, four or five from three. She had three assists. Who in that great dish there. So let's go to the second quarter. I was already at 30 to 16. The game is just starts falling away from the gophers. Corner three bucket. Next possession. Gabby Marshall to Clark 53 26 to score at the half. Clark contributed on 35 of 53 of Iowa's first half points. Minnesota only had 26 3rd quarter. Guess what? Pretty much more of the same. Can't get that one to go. Gets the rebound. Just too much game. It's 60 to 31. Next possession. Clark really has one rock. So many 155 threes this season. That's the most in a season of women's D one history. Just record after record after record for Caitlin Clark. Clearly gonna be the player of the year. Why is she still in? Just because she's got other marks to achieve. Briscoe. She got more points to score more names to check off list. She had 30 points through three fourth quarter. They're up 39. Now the legit question. Why is she in there? That three right there gave her 33 for the game. Passes Lynette Woodard's major women's college mark of 3649 points. More on that very shortly. But you see the final 108 to 60. So again, she's been just checking off names over the last several weeks. And this was a big one because Lynette Woodard scored 3649 points of the mentioned at Kansas before the N. C. A. Even recognized women's sports back by the way, was in my lifetime, right? It was the A. I. A. W. Right from 78 to 81. But Woodard's been very gracious in this and Caitlin Clark. She knew how big of a deal this was as well. She spoke to Holly Roe after the game. You did it again. You know, you needed 33 points and that's what you got tonight in another triple double. What matters to you about this record tonight? I think it's really special. I think it shows how great women's basketball is. There's been so many amazing players to come before me and have laid such a great foundation for me to be able to play on the stage in front of crowds like this. You know, it didn't just start with me. It didn't just start with this team. It was all the people in front of me that have paved the way for women's basketball and players like myself. So more than anything, I'm just grateful to have these opportunities to play in front of fans like this and it never gets old. Holly, honestly, it's super special and it's something that I never take for granted. And before every game starts, I just look around and try to soak it all in because these are some of the best moments of my life. And if I can inspire young girls to play basketball and dream to be whatever they want to be, you know, life's pretty good then. Senior day coming up. What will that mean for you on Sunday? I think just soak in every single second. Enjoy it. We'll have a lot of family there. So I think that's the biggest thing. But also, you know, my teammates, there's some other seniors that I played a lot of time with, have given a lot of to this program and honoring them and hopefully we send them out in the right way. So, all right, we'll see you on college game day. Thank you. All right. So you know what's gonna have her next game? Most likely this is gonna score more than 18 points, which would pass Pete Maravich for the most points in men's or women's N. C. A. D. One history last game of the regular season. And it is a good one. Second ranked Ohio State. That's how they were mentioned. College game day will be there.