Caitlin Clark sets 3-point record as Iowa wins in Big Ten tourney - ESPN

MINNEAPOLIS — Friday was a rough 3-point shooting game for Iowa star Caitlin Clark, but she has had a great career from long range overall.

In the No. 2 seed Hawkeyes' 95-62 victory over No. 7 Penn State in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals, Clark's two 3-pointers gave her 164, the most ever in a season by a Division I player (women or men).

Clark passed Stephen Curry, who had 162 3-pointers at Davidson in 2007-08, and Darius McGhee, who had 162 last season for Liberty. Both Curry and McGhee did so in 36 games; Clark has played in 31 thus far for the 27-4 Hawkeyes.

It marked another record in a season full of them for Clark.

In Iowa's final game of the regular season Sunday, she passed LSU's Pete Maravich for most career points scored by a D-I player. On Friday, she reached the 3-point mark despite one of her least-memorable games shooting.

Clark missed 11 attempts from behind the arc before making her first with 8:41 left in the game. She held up her arms in mock celebration after that 3, drawing a big ovation from the sellout crowd of mostly Hawkeyes fans at Target Center.

«I was trolling and messing around when I made that,» Clark said. «You've got to have some fun. Sometimes it's hard to get up there and shoot the next one, but maybe that's my poison sometimes. I'm just going to launch it. That's just how it's going to be. I was going to make one before the buzzer hit zero, even if it took 20 of them.»

Clark has been held without a 3-pointer only once in her Iowa career: She went 0-for-6 from behind the arc in a victory vs. Purdue on Jan. 13, 2022, when she was a sophomore.

For her career, Clark has 511 3-pointers. The NCAA women's career record was set by Oklahoma's Taylor Robertson last season with 537, although