Lisa Bluder on Caitlin Clark, scoring record: 'She's gonna just blast it out of the water'

Caitlin Clark sits just eight points away from history in terms of the all-time scoring list in women’s college basketball. After that, though, she’ll keep scoring and set a new mark that may stand for many, many years to come.

Lisa Bluder spoke about Clark’s upcoming achievement during a media availability on Wednesday ahead of Iowa’s matchup with Michigan today. As she said, it’s clearly going to make for an exciting outing for those inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. From the moment that it tips off, everyone will be minutes from witnessing a momentous occasion and then, from there, she says it becomes about how much of a gap that Clark can make for herself as the new No. 1.

“It’s pretty exciting. It should be a historic day tomorrow,” said Bluder.

“I guess eight points is what we’re looking at for this record. Obviously, she’s going to just blast it out of the water,” said Bluder.

Clark scored 31 points in a loss at Nebraska on Sunday. It was the 15th performance of scoring 30 or more points of her senior season. That pushed her career total to 3,520 points for a career average at 28.2 points per game. It also has her a single-digit margin from passing Kelsey Plum at 3,527 (25.4 ppg.) during her career at Washington.

However, from there, Clark could finish with a total that would keep her atop the leaderboard for a long time.

The Hawkeyes have 14 games maximum with five regular season games, one to three contests in the Big Ten Tournament, and one to six games in the NCAA Tournament. If she scores her average in all 14, that’s 395 more points to give her over 3,900. With how much she scores at times, Clark might be more on pace for cracking 4,000 or more.

For reference, Clark is also 147 points away from the overall collegiate scoring record from Pete Maravich at LSU. She is currently at No. 4 total and still No. 2 on the women’s side but will be well on her way to No. 1 in both after tonight’s matchup with the Wolverines.

All records are meant to be broken. Plum’s total as a Husky stood for less than a decade before Clark has since come along.

Still, with what she’s about to finish posting on the board in terms of points, it’s safe to say that Clark will remain one-of-one for quite some time.

“It’s going to be fun to see how many points she adds on to that,” said Bluder.