In her final season with the Iowa Hawkeyes, Caitlin Clark wrote her name in college basketball history. She took down Pete Maravich’s record by scoring 3,951 total points.
Clark went on to become the No. 1 pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft and have a rookie season for the ages. In the meantime, a young woman was bracing to take her records down.
As pointed out by Nancy Armour of USA Today, USC star JuJu Watkins is already on pace to score more points than Clark, and while she still has a long way to go, the early returns are more than promising.
JuJu Watkins can break Caitlin Clark’s most impressive record.
“With 29 points in the Big Ten tournament title game Sunday, Watkins has already scored 1,684 points. That surpasses the 1,662 points Clark scored in her first two seasons at Iowa,” Armour wrote. “That Watkins is ahead of Clark right now isn’t a surprise. Watkins set the NCAA freshman scoring record last year, with 920 points, and has already played 65 games compared with the 62 Clark played as a freshman and sophomore.”
Clark was always an explosive scorer, but it wasn’t until her third season in the league that he really took things up a notch. Of course, that doesn’t mean Watkins will average 50 points by the time she’s a senior.
But even if she maintains this pace, there’s a strong chance he will leave college basketball as the all-time leading scorer, and that’s for both male and female hoopers.