When you go to an Iowa women’s basketball game, you know you’re in for a show. Caitlin Clark rarely lets down the fans.
It’s part of what has made her career so historic. On Thursday, when the Hawkeyes play Michigan, Clark is likely to pass Kelsey Plum for the official NCAA Division I women’s basketball scoring record. She currently sits just seven points behind the former Washington guard.
Some players have off nights, then turn around and go supernova the next game. That’s just how basketball goes. But Clark has impressed with a remarkably consistent career that has featured a steady stream of scoring just about every night. So far this season, she’s yet to post fewer than 21 points in a game.
What are the highest-scoring games in her career? Here’s what you need to know.
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Caitlin Clark highest-scoring games
Clark’s career-high scoring game is 46 points, which she scored on Feb. 6, 2022, when she played Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Here’s a look at Clark’s highest-scoring games of her career.
| Date | Opponent | Score | FG-FGA (FG%) | 3P-3PA (3P%) | FT-FTA | Pts |
| Feb. 6, 2022 | Michigan | L, 98-90 | 14-29 (48.3%) | 6-13 (46.2%) | 12-14 | 46 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | NC State | L, 94-81 | 16-28 (57.1%) | 5-13 (38.5%) | 8-8 | 45 |
| Jan. 21, 2024 | Ohio State | L, 100-92 | 12-25 (48%) | 7-18 (38.9%) | 14-16 | 45 |
| Jan. 2, 2022 | Evansville | W, 93-56 | 18-26 (69.2%) | 2-7 (28.6%) | 6-7 | 44 |
| Nov. 9, 2023 | Virginia Tech | W, 80-76 | 13-31 (41.9%) | 5-16 (31.3%) | 13-17 | 44 |
| Jan. 31, 2022 | Ohio State | L, 92-88 | 16-28 (57.1%) | 7-14 (50%) | 4-6 | 43 |
| Feb. 2, 2023 | Maryland | W, 96-82 | 13-19 (68.4%) | 6-11 (54.5%) | 10-11 | 42 |
| March 5, 2022 | Nebraska | W, 83-66 | 13-27 (48.1%) | 5-13 (38.5%) | 10-12 | 41 |
| March 26, 2023 | Louisville | W, 97-83 | 11-19 (57.9%) | 8-14 (57.1%) | 11-13 | 41 |
| March 31, 2023 | South Carolina | W, 77-73 | 15-31 (48.4%) | 5-17 (29.4%) | 6-6 | 41 |
Over her career, Clark has averaged 28.2 points per game. As a senior, she’s averaged 32.1 points per game.
Though Clark has 11 40-point games to her career, she still comes up short of holding the Iowa single-game scoring record. That honor belongs to former star forward Megan Gustafson, who posted 48 points against Minnesota on March 2, 2018.
Clark has been a consistent scorer her entire career. She’s only once scored fewer than 10 points, posting just eight points in the 10th game of her career back in 2021. Over her tenure at Iowa, she’s had a standard deviation of 7.5 points, meaning approximately 70 percent of all her games fall between 20.6 points scored and 35.7 points scored.
Here’s a look at her overall game-by-game scoring distribution:
| Points | Games | Percent |
| Less than or equal to 10 | 1 | 0.8% |
| 11-15 | 3 | 2.4% |
| 16-20 | 16 | 12.8% |
| 21-25 | 25 | 20.0% |
| 26-30 | 36 | 28.8% |
| 31-35 | 27 | 21.6% |
| 36-40 | 7 | 5.6% |
| 41-45 | 9 | 7.2% |
| More than 45 | 1 | 0.8% |
Even beyond the impressive consistency, it’s also remarkable that fans are more likely to see a performance in which she scores more than 40 points than a game where she scores 15 or fewer.
Clark has become the biggest star in college basketball, and it’s clear by her career averages that she’s nearly a guaranteed bet to put on a show whenever she takes the court.
