Caitlin Clark Iowa tracker: March Madness updates, stats, more

The collegiate career of the greatest scorer in NCAA Division I basketball is over. Caitlin Clark and Iowa lost in the women’s national championship game Sunday, falling to No. 1 overall seed South Carolina 87-75. The Gamecocks went a perfect 38-0 this season to become the 10th perfect team in Division I women’s basketball history.

Top-seeded Iowa, which reached the NCAA title game for the second consecutive season, ended the season at 34-5. Clark finished with 30 points Sunday – scoring 18 in the first quarter, the most in a period in a national championship game. She ends her career with 3,951 points. She averaged 31.6 PPG this season and 28.4 over 139 career games.

Clark’s season has included milestones and broken records.

In a 17-day span from Feb. 15 to March 3, Clark broke Kelsey Plum’s record to become the all-time women’s NCAA Division I scoring leader, passed AIAW legend Lynette Woodard for the major college scoring record, and passed LSU legend Pete Maravich for most career points in Division I history for men and women.

We’ve tracked Clark’s entire senior season. Through her final game on April 7, Clark scored 1,234 points. For her career, Clark has:

59 30-point games (including 22 this season), the most by a Division I player in the past 25 seasons

17 triple-doubles (including six this season), which ranks second in D-I history behind Sabrina Ionescu (26)

13 40-point games (including five this season), the most by any D-I player over the past 25 seasons

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