Iowa's Caitlin Clark sets Big Ten tournament's all-time scoring mark - ESPN

MINNEAPOLIS — When it comes to the Big Ten women's basketball tournament, Iowa's Caitlin Clark has maximized her opportunities. Sunday will mark her fourth Big Ten championship game, part of why she has become the tournament's all-time leading scorer.

Clark nabbed that mark — yet another in her record-setting senior season — in Saturday's semifinals as No. 2 seed Iowa beat No. 6 Michigan 95-68. With her 28 points, Clark has 293 (and counting) in the Big Ten tournament for her career. She also became the first Division I women's player to score at least 1,000 points in multiple seasons.

She now has 1,020 points so far this season; she had 1,055 as a junior. Clark is 90 points from breaking the NCAA single-season scoring record of 1,109 set by Washington's Kelsey Plum in 2016-17. Clark already broke Plum's NCAA career scoring record — that came in the Hawkeyes' regular-season win over Michigan on Feb. 15.

«Yeah, we were the lucky ones that got to be at Iowa when Caitlin broke the record, so we kind of were in the same environment today,» Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico ruefully said of the sold-out Target Center crowd of mostly Iowa fans Saturday. «Any time they made a run, the place erupted, or any time there was a big play, the place erupted.»

There were plenty of both for Iowa, 28-4, which will face No. 5 seed Nebraska for the championship. Iowa is going for its sixth overall Big Ten tournament title and third in a row. The Hawkeyes lost to Maryland in the title game in Clark's freshman season but have defeated Indiana and Ohio State in the past two championship games.

Nebraska, 22-10, beat No. 8 seed Maryland 78-68 in Saturday's first semifinal. The Huskers, who joined the league in 2011-12, were Big Ten tournament