Last Night in College Basketball: Mikayla Blakes Bested Caitlin Clark Streak

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Vanderbilt women’s basketball has never posted a 16-0 record at home. Or at least, it had not prior to Thursday. The Commodores faced No. 24 Alabama in Nashville, and routed the Crimson Tide, 85-60. This also marked its 12th SEC win of the year, another program-best. Vandy came out hot, putting 28 points on the board in the first quarter while limiting Bama to 16, then exploded for 31 points coming out of halftime, putting the game out of reach for good after the Tide had narrowed the gap in the second quarter.

Alabama shot just 33% overall and 6-for-26 from 3, while the Dores forced them into 23 turnovers — Vanderbilt’s defense is at its best when it’s disruptive and capitalizes on the mistakes that it creates, and here it scored 22 points on those turnovers.

The real difference maker, though, was sophomore guard Mikayla Blakes. She scored 35 points on 11-for-21 shooting, sinking half-a-dozen 3-pointers while adding 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals and a block; it was her NCAA-leading 11th 30-point game of the season. A massive performance that propelled Vanderbilt to victory, but also Blakes to a bit of history: as the broadcast noted, this was her fifth game in a row scoring at least 30 points against a top-25 team, passing Iowa legend Caitlin Clark’s mark of four-straight such games, which was the most of anyone since the 2021-2022 season. Given Clark is the all-time scoring leader in Division I college basketball — men’s or women’s — besting any achievement of hers