Basketball legend Lynette Woodard reversed course and acknowledged Caitlin Clark because the NCAA all-time scoring file holder after her preliminary remarks sparked backlash.
Woodard gave a nod to Clark on Instagram after Iowa misplaced to South Carolina within the nationwide championship. Woodard wrote she would root for Clark for the remainder of her profession.
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Lynette Woodard, earlier holder of the ladies’s basketball all-time scoring file, in attendance throughout a girls’s faculty basketball sport between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Iowa Hawkeyes on March 3, 2024 at Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment in Iowa Metropolis, Iowa. (Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs)
“To make clear my remarks made at an awards ceremony on Saturday, nobody respects Caitlin Clark’s accomplishments greater than I do,” she wrote. “That is why I accepted Iowa’s invitation to take part in Caitlin’s senior day. My message was: quite a bit has modified, on and off the courtroom, which makes it troublesome to match statistical accomplishments from completely different eras.
“Every is a snapshot in time. Caitlin holds the scoring file.”
Clark broke Woodard’s mark, which she set earlier than the NCAA established girls’s basketball. Woodard performed for Kansas within the Affiliation for Intercollegiate Athletics for Ladies (AIAW).
Woodard was current on the Ladies’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.
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Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark, #22, shoots the ball in opposition to the South Carolina Gamecocks within the finals of the Ultimate 4 of the Ladies’s 2024 NCAA Match at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on April 7, 2024. (Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports activities)
“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 suppose my file has been damaged as a result of you possibly can’t duplicate what you’re not duplicating. So, until 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.”
Woodard tallied 3,649 factors in 4 seasons with the Jayhawks from 1977 to 1981, and her argument that her complete ought to nonetheless stand comes from the truth that there was no three-point line in addition to different rules.
Woodard talked about males’s basketball, which is what was used within the girls’s sport then, not like at present, as a result of it was a unique measurement.
Nevertheless, 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.
Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark, #22, dribbles the ball previous South Carolina Gamecocks guard Raven Johnson, #25, within the finals of the Ultimate 4 of the Ladies’s 2024 NCAA Match at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on April 7, 2024. (Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports activities)
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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.
Fox Information’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
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