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Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark continues to impress, both on as well as off the court.
Tuesday night, Clark dropped another 30-burger on her opponent, dropping 32 on Wisconsin’s head with 7 rebounds and 5 assists in Iowa’s 96-50 rout of the Badgers.
She is now averaging a career-high 31.0 points per game – tops in the nation – while dishing out 7.7 assists per game – second in the nation – while shooting a career high 48.1 percent from the field, including 40.1 percent from beyond the arc, WAY beyond the arc.
LOGO ALERT 🚨@CaitlinClark22 x #Hawkeyes pic.twitter.com/RHDw665GFQ
— Iowa Women's Basketball (@IowaWBB) January 17, 2024
The Hawkeyes now sit at 19-1 on the season and thanks in large part to Caitlin Clark are filling arenas all over the Midwest with old and new women’s college basketball fans.
This season, teams have seen an average 144.8% spike in attendance when Iowa and Caitlin Clark come to play them 🔥 pic.twitter.com/o4fD5nmVJM
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) January 12, 2024
Many of those women’s college basketball fans are of the young variety as Clark has become a true role model with how she carries herself, complimenting her astounding feats on the basketball court.
Case in point: Following Iowa’s drubbing of Wisconsin this week Caitlin Clark spotted a young girl mimicking her during warmups so after the game she gifted the girl the custom Nike Sabrina 1s (Sabrina Ionescu’s signature show) right off her feet complete with an autograph.
“Usually they don’t say much because I think they’re a little but shocked, but that girl had my jersey on and it was cute. She was copying our stretching warming up so I thought it was adorable. She was doing leg swings when we were doing leg swings. She was super happy to be there and she was sitting courtside so, you know, something easy I can make her day and I’m sure she loved it, so it was cool.”
Caitlin gave away her custom Sabrinas to this lucky fan
We later found out this was no coincidence: Franny, from Dubuque, was mimicking the Hawkeyes warming up and she was flattered. pic.twitter.com/DhnlBUJV9V
— Blake Hornstein (@BlakeHornTV) January 17, 2024
Something else that was cool also happened during Iowa’s game versus Wisconsin. Caitlin Clark passed Brittney Griner for fourth on the all time scoring list in women’s college basketball.
Clark now sits just 87 point behind Jackie Stiles of Missouri State for third on the list, 96 points behind Kelsey Mitchell of Ohio State in second, and 221 points behind Kelsey Plum of Washington at the top.