Clark’s college career is over but her impact on the game is not

Most points. Highest scoring average. Most 3-pointers in a season. Most 3-pointers in a career. Most national scoring titles. And so on, and so on, and so on.

Caitlin Clark’s college career is over. And the stats she leaves behind are going to be in the record books — the Iowa ones, the Big Ten ones, the NCAA ones — for a long, long time.

“She has raised the excitement of our sport,” Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said. “There’s no doubt. She does things in a different way than anybody else can do.”

The numbers back that up. A look at just some of Clark’s national Division I women’s records:

CAREER POINTS

Clark’s record:

3,951 points.

Previous record: Kelsey Plum, Washington, 3,527.

Percentage difference: 12%

Plum was rooting for Clark to break the record, telling The Associated Press in November that “when she breaks it, I’ll be very, very happy.”

“To me, the record was never that big of a deal,” Plum said.

It is, however, to some people.

POINTS IN A SEASON

Clark’s record: 1,234. Previous record: Plum, 1,109.

Percentage difference: 11.3%

There have been seven 1,000-point seasons in Division I women’s history. Clark has two of them.

If there’s one player currently in the women’s game who might give this (or the all-time scoring mark) a serious challenge, it’s USC’s JuJu Watkins. She had 920 points as a freshman this season. Clark’s freshman total was 799.

CAREER POINTS PER GAME

Clark’s record: 28.42. Previous record: Patricia Hoskins, Mississippi Valley State, 28.38.

Percentage difference: 0.1%

Clark passed Hoskins in the game where Iowa topped LSU to reach this season’s Final Four. But after Clark scored 21 points in the national semifinals against UConn, she needed at least 25 points on Sunday in the title game against South Carolina to keep her average ahead of Hoskins.

3-POINTERS IN A SEASON

Clark’s record: 201. Previous record: Taylor Pierce, Idaho, 154.

Percentage difference: 30.5%

Look at that gap between No. 1 and No. 2 on this list. The game is getting more and more reliant on the 3-pointer and it’s been moving that way for several years, but no NCAA Division I player — not even Stephen Curry, the NBA’s 3-point king — has come close to 200 in a season.

CAREER 3-POINTERS

Clark’s record: 548. Previous record: Taylor Robertson, Oklahoma, 537.

Percentage difference: 2%

This was a mark Clark didn’t reach until the second-to-last game of her Iowa career. Here’s the most overlooked part of Clark’s 3-point and scoring prowess — she wasn’t a shameless shooter. She led the nation in assists in each of the last three seasons, joining Northwestern State’s La’Terrica Dobin as the only player to do that in back-to-back-toback years.