As Caitlin Clark performs the ultimate sport of her illustrious profession for the Iowa Hawkeyes, Lynette Woodard, the earlier all-time scoring chief in main ladies’s faculty basketball, believes her file nonetheless stands.
Woodard was current on the Girls’s Basketball Coaches Affiliation conference in Cleveland for the women’s Final Four, the place she needed to “get the elephant out of the room” whereas talking.
“I’m the hidden determine, however now not now,” the Corridor of Famer mentioned. “My file was hidden from everybody for 43 years. … I don’t assume my file has been damaged as a result of you possibly can’t duplicate what you’re not duplicating. So, except you include a males’s basketball and a 2-point shot, … however only for you, so you possibly can perceive, so you possibly can assist me unfold that phrase.”
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Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes is proven within the sport in opposition to the UConn Huskies through the NCAA Girls’s Basketball Match Remaining 4 semifinal sport at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on April 5, 2024, in Cleveland. (Ben Solomon/NCAA Pictures through Getty Pictures)
Woodard tallied 3,649 factors in 4 seasons with the Kansas Jayhawks from 1977 to 1981, and her argument that her whole ought to nonetheless stand comes from the truth that there was no three-point line in addition to different rules.
Woodard talked about the lads’s basketball, which is what was used within the ladies’s sport then, not like right this moment, as a result of it was a unique measurement.
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However Clark has clearly used the three-pointer to her benefit over her faculty profession, draining 543 of them heading into the nationwide championship sport in opposition to South Carolina on Sunday. She has 3,921 factors and counting.
When Clark handed Woodard, the Hawkeyes invited her to a sport at Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment in Iowa Metropolis, the place she gave Clark her flowers.
Lynette Woodard of the Cleveland Rockers is proven in 1997. (Greg Shamus/NBAE through Getty Pictures/File)
“I don’t assume Lynette Woodard would have had this second with out Caitlin Clark, so I’ve obtained to present it proper again to her,” Woodard mentioned then.
Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder made positive to acknowledge Woodard in February when Clark broke her file. Bluder advocated for the NCAA to acknowledge Woodard’s factors whole, which was part of the Affiliation for Intercollegiate Athletics for Girls, making them not part of the group when Clark broke the file.
Clark’s factors whole will proceed to construct in her closing sport in opposition to the Gamecocks; the WNBA’s projected No. 1 decide later this yr averages 28.4 factors per sport in her profession, together with 31.7 in her senior season this yr.
Lynette Woodard feels her main ladies’s scoring file nonetheless stands regardless of Caitlin Clark breaking it. (Getty Pictures/File)
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She additionally has 1,139 profession assists, averaging 8.3 over her profession, together with 9.0 this season.
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