On Sunday, Iowa’s Caitlin Clark became the NCAA Division I all-time best scorer in men’s and women’s basketball. Clark’s career point total exceeded that of another revolutionary player, former LSU standout “Pistol” Pete Maravich, who concluded with 3,667 points 54 years ago.
It was a record-setting week. Clark, a catalyst for women’s basketball’s recent rapid rise, had already broken Lynette Woodard’s Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women scoring record of 3,649 points. She also shattered the Division I women’s single-season 3-point record of 154 set by Idaho’s Taylor Pierce.
Clark joined an elite club of women who have held NCAA men’s and women’s basketball records after exceeding Maravich’s mark.
While not a comprehensive list, here are tenOn the sidelines, Stanford women’s basketball head coach Tara VanDerveer leads the all-time victories list in both men’s and women’s basketball. On January 21, the coaching icon surpassed former Duke men’s head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s record of 1,202 wins. VanDerveerVanDerveer, a former Indiana guard, has been coaching at Stanford since 1985, taking a year off in 1996 to coach the United States national team to Olympic gold in Atlanta. She has only missed one NCAA tournament since joining Stanford. Beginning with the 2014-15 season, UConn women’s basketball went on an incredible 111-game win run. The streak ended in sad way in 2017, with a buzzer-beating shot against Mississippi State in the 2017 Final Four. The loss also brought an end to the Huskies’ four-year run of national championships. UConn’s streak surpassed its previous record of 90, established from 2008 to 2011. Previously, the UCLA men’s team, headed by John Wooden, had the longest winning streak in history with 88 games.
