MINNEAPOLIS — University of Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark has another career record on her astounding resumé: the most points by any major college women’s player to ever take the court.
For Hawkeyes coach Lisa Bluder and her peers, this one matters the most.
The 6-foot senior guard scored 33 points to lead the sixth-ranked Hawkeyes to a 108-60 romp against Minnesota, pushing her past Lynette Woodard on the all-time list with 3,650 points.
“Tonight is the night of the real record,” said Bluder, who played for Northern Iowa from 1979-83. “For some reason, the NCAA does not want to recognize the basketball that was played prior to 1982, and that’s wrong. We played basketball back then. They just don’t want to recognize it, and that hurts the rest of us who were playing at that time. There’s no reason why that should not be the true record.”
Earlier this month, Clark passed Kelsey Plum (3,527) as the all-time NCAA women’s scoring leader. Woodard totaled 3,649 points from 1977-81 for Kansas when the sport was under the purveyance of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, before the NCAA began sanctioning women’s basketball with the 1981-82 season.