On the court, Iowa guard Caitlin Clark has set records in spades. The Hawkeyes superstar reached major college basketball’s final scoring frontier Sunday, passing legendary LSU guard Pete Maravich to set a new all-gender mark of 3,685 points.
It is her gravitational pull off the court, however, that has allowed Clark to reach a rare celebrity status in college athletics.
Accordingly, No. 6 Iowa’s 93-83 victory over No. 2 Ohio State on Sunday afternoon on Fox drew a remarkable television audience of 3.4 million viewers.