IOWA CITY, Iowa — Caitlin Clark has so many awards, she’s unsure the place all of them are at.
She’s going so as to add a pair extra commemorative basketballs after the fourth-ranked Iowa girls defeated Minnesota 94-71 on Saturday.
Clark recorded her sixth double-double of the season and forty ninth of her profession with 35 factors and 10 assists — and he or she grew to become the Big Ten’s all-time help chief.
She additionally grew to become the primary Division I participant — man or girl — to have 3,000-plus factors, 900 or extra assists and 800 or extra rebounds in a profession. And she moved into fifth place all-time on the NCAA Division I profession scoring record with 3,149 factors.
“I have a couple of storage units back home my parents put stuff in,” stated Clark, whose 904 assists surpassed Samantha Prahalis’ 901. “The 3,000-point ball is just sitting in our locker room. Sometimes it gets lost in my locker, I don’t know, until I clean it out, or until I make one of my teammates clean it out. They get so annoyed, they clean it for me.”
“It needs to be cleaned,” coach Lisa Bluder shortly added.
The record-breaking help got here on a move that Hannah Stuelke, who had 19 factors, was a layup with 47 seconds left within the third quarter.
“Caitlin always finds me,” Stuelke stated.
All of Clark’s milestones, although, are one thing Bluder has grown to understand.
“I relish it,” Bluder stated. “It’s so much fun. I want her to get double-doubles, I want her to break records. To me, it’s so much fun to watch her do that. I never get tired of her passing.”
Clark instantly interrupted.
“Do you ever get tired of my shooting, though?” she stated, smiling.
“No,” Bluder stated, who then smiled as she added, “Well, sometimes.”
Clark was good together with her taking pictures on this sport, going 13 of twenty-two from the sphere, together with 8 of 16 on 3-pointers.
Iowa (13-1, 2-0 Big Ten) prolonged its successful streak to 10 video games, this system’s longest streak for the reason that 2004-05 crew opened the season with 13 consecutive wins.
Amaya Battle had 16 factors for Minnesota (11-2, 1-1).
“Iowa’s a great team, and any time you give a great team a little bit, they can go far with it,” Battle stated. “We didn’t come out hard, and they took advantage of that.”
Mara Braun had 15 factors and Sophie Hart added 13 for the Golden Gophers.
“Obviously, Iowa played at a really high level and did good things,” Minnesota coach Dawn Plitzuweit stated. “They outcompeted us early on and we dug ourselves a hole. They attacked and got to the rim, and for whatever reason, we didn’t help each other a lot.”
BIG PICTURE
Minnesota: The Golden Gophers got here in on an eight-game successful streak, with their solely loss this season coming to No. 15 Connecticut. But they had been taken out of this sport with Iowa’s early run. Minnesota is without doubt one of the youngest groups within the Big Ten, and it confirmed in opposition to the skilled Hawkeyes.
Iowa: The Hawkeyes hadn’t performed since a December 21 win over Loyola Chicago, however confirmed the lengthy layoff wasn’t going to be an issue with a robust begin. Iowa coach Lisa Bluder tightened the rotation to simply eight gamers within the first half and acquired contributions from everybody.
UP NEXT
Minnesota: Hosts Maryland on Wednesday.
Iowa: Hosts Michigan State on Tuesday.
