Caitlin Clark is the greatest scorer in college basketball history. Period.
There is no longer a debate.
Iowa’s superstar guard broke Pistol Pete Maravich’s record in the final regular season game of her four-year career on Sunday. However, she did so in the most boring way possible. It was very anticlimactic.
Caitlin Clark scored her 3,668th point on a technical foul free throw.
Fortunately, Gus Johnson was on the call! He has an uncanny ability to make anything exciting, even if it is not. And Clark’s record-breaking shot was not.
To make it even less thrilling, the foul that led to free throws that led to the scoring record was extremely controversial. It was somehow called as a technical!
Ohio State forward Cotie McMahon was T’d up for a very subdued interaction. She and Clark were walking back up the court after a whistle. The latter actually initiated the contact.
Clark bumped into McMahon, who just so happened to be in the way of the Hawkeyes’ huddle. It wasn’t an intentional attempt to create a disruption but she got bumped anyway.
Even though McMahon got bumped by Clark, Clark ricocheted off of McMahon and acted like she was wronged. The officials only saw the reaction. They overreacted.
The Big Ten crew called a foul on McMahon for pushing Clark— a technical foul. If anything, the call should have gone the other way. Clark was more deserving of a foul than McMahon.
This was the "technical" on Cotie McMahon… https://t.co/rkjj6wdTI3 pic.twitter.com/DrKFsTSnjv
— Jonathan Smith (@DegenerateTBone) March 3, 2024
As a result of the poor officiating decision, Iowa received two shots and the ball.
Clark and her massive hands made both shots. Her second make broke Maravich’s record. Boring.
Regardless of how it all went down, it was inevitable that Clark was going to break the college basketball scoring record. Unfortunately, the record-breaking sequence was super lame.