Minnesota vs No.6 Iowa | Big Ten | 2.28.24

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - February 28th, 2024
All American, Caitlin Clark, passed Lynette Woodard to become the all-time major women’s college basketball leading scorer as the sixth-ranked Iowa dropped Minnesota, 108-60, on Wednesday night inside a sold-out Williams Arena.
Iowa improved to 25-4 this season and 14-2 in conference play.
Clark garnered her sixth triple-double of the season and 17th of her career with 33 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds. Gabbie Marshall went 4-of-7 from three scoring 16 points, and Taylor McCabe shot 71.4% from the arc to add 15. Kylie Feuerbach reached a season-high with 13 points, and Molly Davis scored 11 points, shooting a perfect 5-of-5 from the field.
Iowa came out with a 30-16 lead over the Gophers. Clark registered a quarter-high 15 points with five threes to become the Big Ten three-point field goal leader, and Marshall bucketed a three in the first to reach her 1,000th career point.
The Hawkeyes played tough defense in the second holding the Gophers to 10 points and scoreless from three. Iowa held a 53-26 lead going into halftime.
In the third, Iowa recorded a game-high 33 points to add to its lead shooting 14-20 from the field. McCabe led the Hawkeyes with four threes in the fourth quarter to solidify the Iowa blowout.
POSTGAME NOTES
- National Player of the Year candidate, Caitlin Clark, surpassed the AIAW’s all-time leading scorer, Lynette Woodard to become the all-time leading scorer in major women’s college basketball history.
- It was her 17th career triple-double, she is one of two players in the history of women’s college basketball to record a triple-double in four consecutive seasons.
- Iowa broke the Williams Arena record for most made three’s in a single game. (22)
- Iowa broke its own school record with 22 made 3-pointers in a single game.
- Clark broke the NCAA’s single season all-time 3-pointers made record, she has made 503 in 129 games.
- Clark is the first Big Ten women’s basketball player to record 500+ treys in a career.
- Clark is now only trailing the NCAA men’s scoring champion, Pete Maravich (3,667).
- Clark has 19 career games with 30+ points and 10+ assists, no one in college women’s basketball in past 25 seasons has more than two such games.
- The Hawkeyes tied their program record for most made 3-pointers in a quarter with seven.
- Gabbie Marshall became the 44th Hawkeye women’s basketball player to record 1,000 career points.
- Marshall recorded her second-highest point total of the season.
- Marshall is the only player in Iowa women’s basketball history to record 200+ 3-pointers and 200+ steals in a career.
- Marshall netted four treys for the first time since Jan. 31, 2024 at Northwestern.
- Iowa has scored 100+ points 10 times this season and in three out of the last four games.
- It was Iowa’s 16th win by 20+ points this season.
- It was Clark’s 17th game with 30+ points this year which ranks first nationally.
- Among active players who didn’t transfer, Marshall (120) and Martin (117) are third and fourth nationally for most active wins in a career.
- It was Clark’s 61st career double-double which is good for fourth on the Big Ten’s all-time list.
- Clark leads the country in 20+ point games this season with 29.
- Clark is the only player in the country with 900+ points, 225+ assists, and 175+ rebounds this season.
- Iowa is 40-6 in Big Ten play since Feb. 9, 2022.
- Since the start of the 2020-21 season, Iowa leads the nation with 100 games of 80+ points.
- Iowa also leads the country with 55 games of 90+ points offensively.
- UI has scored 80 or more points 23 times this season.
- The country’s best offense has record 90+ points in nine out of the last 11 games.
- Clark has scored 20+ points in 114-of-129 career games which is the most in program history.
- Clark kept her streak of 86 consecutive games making a 3-point basket. (NCAA best)
- Clark is the first Division-I men’s or women’s player to record 3,600+ points, 1,000+ assists, and 850+ rebounds in a career.