Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (22) celebrates after turning into the all-time main scorer in NCAA Division I basketball in the course of the first half of a faculty recreation in opposition to Ohio State, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (22) celebrates after turning into the all-time main scorer in NCAA Division I basketball in the course of the first half of a faculty recreation in opposition to Ohio State, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Iowa’s Caitlin Clark grew to become the NCAA’s all-time scoring chief on Sunday, as she closes out her ultimate season with the Hawkeyes in a recreation in opposition to Ohio State.

Clark entered her final regular-season recreation 17 factors shy of Pete Maravich’s profession document of three,667 factors. She handed the document, which has stood since 1970, with a free-throw towards the top of the primary half.

Clark confirmed no response after the shot that took her to three,668 factors. In an interview at half-time, Clark mentioned she wasn’t conscious she’d damaged the document in that second.

“When they announced it and everybody screamed — that’s when I knew,” she mentioned.

Clark’s path to the document for many factors by a Division I participant — males’s or ladies’s — has been a dominant one. She has put up a median of 32.2 factors per recreation this season, scoring as many as 49 factors in a single recreation final month in opposition to Michigan.

In her earlier recreation 4 days in the past, Clark handed Lynette Woodard’s 3,649-point women’s college record — set for Kansas from 1977-81, earlier than the NCAA acknowledged the ladies’s sport.

“Listen, this is the greatest ticket on the planet right now,” Woodard mentioned in an interview with ESPN forward of tip-off on Sunday. “I’m going to enjoy this right now.”

Ticket costs for the record-setting recreation in opposition to Ohio State skyrocketed as folks lined as much as watch Clark make historical past on her senior day. Clark plans to enter the WNBA draft after this season.

Ticketing platform Logitix reported a median ticket value of $598 for the sport, for gross sales since Feb. 1.