IOWA CITY — University of Iowa National Player of the Year candidate, Caitlin Clark, earned Big Ten Player of the Week honors the conference office announced on Monday.
This marks Clark’s 25th weekly award from the conference, which is the most in Big Ten conference history surpassing former Hawkeye, Megan Gustafson. (23)
She garnered weekly honors for the fourth consecutive week and the seventh time this season.
Clark led the Hawkeyes to a pair of conference wins against Purdue and No. 14 Indiana. Against the Boilermakers, Clark registered her fourth triple-double of the season and 15th of her career. She had 26 points, 10 assists, and 10 rebounds. In a primetime matchup with the Hoosiers, Clark recorded 30 points, 11 assists, and five rebounds. She has 13 career games with 30+ points and 10+ assists, no one in college women’s basketball in past 25 seasons has more than two such games. Five of those have come against ranked teams.
PLAYER NOTES
– It was her 52nd career double-double against IU, she is tied for seventh on the Big Ten’s all-time list. She leads all Big Ten active players in career double-doubles.
– Clark has 53 career games with 25+ points, 5+ assists, and 5+ rebounds. (NCAA Best)
– Clark has scored 20+ points in 103-of-118 career games which is the most in program history.
– She kept her alive streak of 76 consecutive games making a 3-point basket. (NCAA best)
– Clark has scored 25+ points, 5+ assists, and 5+ rebounds in 11 out of the last 12 games.
– The All-American is the first Division-I player in men’s or women’s college basketball to record 3,000+ points, 900+ assists, and 800+ rebounds in a career.
– She is fifth on the NCAA’s all-time scoring list. She is 10 points shy of Brittney Griner.
– Is the all-time leader in 30+ point performances in men’s and women’s college basketball over the last 25 seasons. (46)
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The second-ranked Hawkeyes will host Wisconsin on Jan. 16. Tip-off is set for 8 p.m. (CT) inside a sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The game will broadcast on Peacock (subscription required) and the Hawkeye Radio Network.
