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Caitlin Clark is obviously an all-time college basketball great regardless of whether Iowa wins the NCAA Division I women’s basketball championship. Her three-point range has redefined women’s basketball today and she has picked up the mantle from recent women’s college basketball greats like Aliyah Boston and Breanna Stewart as the face of the sport. Looking at the record books of all-time great scorers that Clark has passed, it is important to give respect to greats like Lynette Woodard and Pearl Moore who did so as African/Black women during a time when even less respect is given to women’s athletics.
Iowa star Caitlin Clark is taking her scoring records to March Madness. She has 3,771 career points. She moved past Bob Hopkins for eighth place all-time in college basketball on
Lynette Woodard, an overlooked basketball legend, holds the all-time scoring record for women's college basketball at the University of Kansas. She achieved this without the three-point shot and a smaller ball. Despite her groundbreaking career, her name is absent from NCAA records. Woodard continues to advocate for the recognition of AIAW records.