A big night in sports last night: Caitlin Clark became the all-time leading scorer in women’s college basketball history, scoring the first eight points and draining a Rock N Jock-style three-pointer for the last three to set the record early on…and then going on to drop 49 total, a new career-high, in Iowa’s win over Michigan!
Congrats to Clark, who got some serious dap from the Junkies and John Feinstein on Friday, who agreed she is, right now, the face of college hoops.
“I wonder how many media were at that game last night. I bet a lot, and I know The Post had somebody there,” Feinstein said. “These days, men's college basketball regular-season games usually only get covered by print media locally, and obviously there were national reporters there last night - and she certainly came up big. So I would say for right now, sure, she is the face of basketball. The men’s player of the year right now would be Zach Edey, and I would bet you right now more people are aware of Clark's numbers than Edey’s.”
EB summed it up in three words: ‘she deserves it.’
“I was actually the night police reporter, but I would still cover sports at times, and I was sent in 1978 to cover Maryland-UCLA at Cole Fieldhouse. Those were the two teams that ended up playing that year for the national championship, and I'm telling you I could have started for either one of those teams,” Feinstein said. “They just weren't any good, and it was hide your eyes type stuff. The progress that the women's game has made is amazing; what they’re doing is incredible, and the women's game is at a completely different level now than it was even four years ago. It’s a different sport, and the progress has been amazing.”
The Junkies remember that era of Terps hoops, too, and the five reminisced about the old days of covering college basketball and being invited to practices, and here we are now with Clark less than 100 points away from passing Pete Maravich to become the highest-scoring player in Division 1 hoops history overall.
Take a listen above as the Junks give Clark her props, and then bring John in for some more!