Clark finished her college career with 17 triple-doubles. And that’s for all divisions, not just Division I. Clark leaves as the active NCAA women’s basketball leader in career points, scoring average, 3-point field goals, 3-pointers per game, career assists, assists per game, field goals made, 3-point attempts, free throws made and free throws attempted. She owns the record for women’s Division I tourney all-time play on all these lists: points (491), assists (152) and 3-pointers (78). To help put this stat in perspective: She made more 3-pointers this season than 60% of the teams in Division I women’s basketball did this season.Ĭlark set the standard in a slew of NCAA Tournament categories. She led the nation in assists in each of the last three seasons, joining Northwestern State’s La’Terrica Dobin as the only player to do that in back-to-back-to-back years. Here’s the most overlooked part of Clark’s 3-point and scoring prowess - she wasn’t a shameless shooter. This was a mark Clark didn’t reach until the second-to-last game of her Iowa career. Previous record: Taylor Robertson, Oklahoma, 537. The game is getting more and more reliant on the 3-pointer and it’s been moving that way for several years, but no NCAA Division I player - not even Stephen Curry, the NBA’s 3-point king - has come close to 200 in a season. Previous record: Taylor Pierce, Idaho, 154. But after Clark scored 21 points in the national semifinals against UConn, she needed at least 25 points on Sunday in the title game against South Carolina to keep her average ahead of Hoskins. Previous record: Patricia Hoskins, Mississippi Valley State, 28.38.Ĭlark passed Hoskins in the game where Iowa topped LSU to reach this season’s Final Four. She had 920 points as a freshman this season. If there’s one player currently in the women’s game who might give this (or the all-time scoring mark) a serious challenge, it’s USC’s JuJu Watkins.

There have been seven 1,000-point seasons in Division I women’s history. No player, male or female, has reached 3,951 at the NCAA level. But in the NCAA’s eyes, the record belongs to Clark. (It should be noted that a post appeared on Woodard’s social media account Sunday saying she believes Clark has the record.

Lynette Woodard made headlines at the Final Four by saying that she believes she’s still the rightful recordholder with 3,649 points - in an era where women still played with a men’s basketball and without a 3-point line. There was a different governing body for women’s sports before that, the AIAW - where Pearl Moore once topped 4,000 points. To be clear: The numbers by Clark, Plum and everyone else who has played Division I women’s basketball for the last 40-some years are the only ones recognized by the NCAA. “To me, the record was never that big of a deal,” Plum said.

Plum was rooting for Clark to break the record, telling The Associated Press in November that “when she breaks it, I’ll be very, very happy.”

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