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🏀 Good morning to everybody however particularly …

CAITLIN CLARK

Sorry, document e book writers: Caitlin Clark is not slowing down. Underneath two weeks after breaking Kelsey Plum‘s NCAA girls’s scoring document, the Iowa celebrity handed Lynette Woodard for most factors in major-program girls’s faculty basketball historical past.

It requires a little bit of rationalization: Woodard starred for Kansas from 1977-81, racking up 3,649 profession factors. Nevertheless, the NCAA didn’t start sponsoring girls’s basketball till 1982, so Woodard is nowhere to be present in NCAA document books; she performed when the game was below the Affiliation for Intercollegiate Athletics for Ladies.

This has precipitated Woodard to go unfairly unrecognized for years, however Clark’s excellence has helped shine some mild on simply how good Woodard was. When requested what she would say when Clark broke her document, Woodard responded, “Hey, congratulations. Welcome to the get together.”

Now, it is occurred.

Clark handed Woodard’s mark on a 3-pointer within the fourth quarter of the No. 6 Hawkeyes’ 108-60 win over Minnesota. She completed with 33 factors (on eight 3-pointers), 12 assists and 10 rebounds, which means Woodard’s scoring mark wasn’t the one historical past she made:

• 18th profession triple-double, second to Sabrina Ionescu in girls’s NCAA D-I historical past
• Sixth triple-double this season, tied for third in girls’s NCAA D-I historical past
• 156 3-pointers this season, most in girls’s D-I historical past
• 503 profession 3-pointers, second to Taylor Robertson in girls’s D-I historical past

Clark is eighteen factors from passing Pete Maravich for many factors in major-program faculty historical past, males’s or girls’s.

😁 Honorable mentions

🏀 And never such an excellent morning for …

THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS

Simply because the Warriors had been seemingly rounding into type and the healthiest they have been following Chris Paul‘s return, they have been dealt a troublesome blow. Andrew Wiggins is out indefinitely because of a private matter.

• Wiggins, 29, missed the Warriors’ win in opposition to the Wizards on Tuesday. After a troublesome begin to the season, Wiggins has been enjoying higher of late, and Golden State has received 9 of its final 11 video games and vaulted itself right into a play-in spot.
• Wiggins missed the Warriors’ closing 25 video games final season because of a private matter as effectively. He returned for the playoffs.

As at all times, any absence results in a series response. Here is who might want to step up, per Jack Maloney.

• Maloney: “With out Wiggins, they’re going to want kids akin to Jonathan Kuminga and Brandin Podziemski to proceed stepping up, in addition to extra constant play from Klay Thompson, who’s now coming off the bench. Thompson remained in a reserve function in Wiggins’ absence on Tuesday, which suggests he won’t transfer again into the beginning lineup.”

😠 Not so honorable mentions

🏈 Jets give Zach Wilson permission to hunt commerce

Very similar to his predecessor Sam Darnold, Zach Wilson struggled in three seasons with the Jets after being a top-five decide … now will seemingly be suiting up elsewhere. The Jets gave Wilson permission to hunt a commerce. The place he finally ends up and what the Jets obtain in return are anybody’s finest guess.

Since 2021, Wilson, 24, ranks final in passer ranking, touchdown-to-interception ratio and completion share. However this is not a “bash Zach Wilson” session — he is had sufficient of that — and his circumstances had been removed from good within the Large Apple. He has legit expertise. There is a motive he was the No. 2 decide. Perhaps a brand new house can deliver that out. Cody Benjamin has 5 potential touchdown spots for Wilson, together with …

• Benjamin: “Chiefs — Wilson was unfairly in comparison with Patrick Mahomes popping out of BYU, however there would not be a greater mentor for the bodily gifted teenager. Ok.C. hasn’t but developed a long-term backup for Mahomes, both, with Blaine Gabbert changing Chad Henne because the veteran No. 2 this yr. Wilson would absolutely embrace the possibility to be taught below Andy Reid.”

💰 Kansas bumps Lance Leipold’s annual wage

Kansas is opening its checkbook, hoping to maintain the coach main the Jayhawks’ soccer resurgence in Lawrence for the long run. Lance Leipold obtained a wage bump to over $7 million yearly, placing him in the identical neighborhood as Oklahoma State‘s Mike Gundy and Oklahoma‘s Brent Venables. Leipold’s contract nonetheless runs by way of 2029.

• Leipold inherited a program that went 0-9 in 2020. After going 2-10 in his first yr, the Jayhawks went 6-7 in 2022, making their first bowl recreation since 2008. Final season, Kansas went 9-4 — its finest document since 2007 — and received the Assured Price Bowl.
• Kansas completed final yr twenty third within the AP Ballot, simply the second time this millennium it has completed a season within the Prime 25.
• That success got here regardless of 2023 Large 12 Preseason Offensive Participant of the Yr Jalon Daniels enjoying in simply three video games. Daniels will return in 2024.

It continues the Jayhawks’ current funding in soccer, Will Backus writes.

• Backus: “Leipold did such a powerful job with the Jayhawks in 2022 that his title was talked about with a number of distinguished openings in the course of the ensuing teaching carousel. Kansas responded with a brand new contract that greater than doubled his wage on the time. In August 2023 the college introduced a $300 million undertaking to renovate David Sales space Kansas Memorial Stadium and the encompassing space.”

🔥 Prime Leap Day sports activities moments

Hear, I like March Insanity as a lot as anybody, but when we’ll have to attend one further day for the most effective sports activities month (do not even attempt to argue), we’d as effectively take advantage of it. Here is a journey down Leap Day reminiscence lane, courtesy of Austin Nivison, together with …

• “1980: Gordie Howe scores 800th NHL aim — Howe beat Blues goaltender Mike Liut early within the third interval to achieve the milestone, and it was made extra spectacular by the truth that Howe was 51 years previous on the time. Howe additionally acquired to have fun the second along with his son, Mark, who was additionally on the Whalers‘ roster on the time. The 1979-80 season was Howe’s final within the NHL, and he scored only one extra aim that yr earlier than retiring with 801 profession tallies. That stood because the all-time document for simply 14 years, when Wayne Gretzky buried his 802nd profession aim on March 23, 1994.”

📺 What we’re watching Thursday

🏈 NFL Mix, 3 p.m. on NFL Community
🏀 No. 5 Virginia Tech at No. 17 Notre Dame (W), 7 p.m. on ESPN
🏀 Warriors at Knicks, 7:30 p.m. on TNT
🏀 Florida State at No. 22 Louisville (W), 8 p.m. on ACC Community
🏀 No. 1 South Carolina at Arkansas (W), 9 p.m. on SEC Community
🏒 Avalanche at Blackhawks, 9 p.m. on ESPN
🏀 Warmth at Nuggets, 10 p.m. on TNT
🏀 Saint Mary’s at Pepperdine (M), 11 p.m. on CBS Sports activities Community
🏀 No. 23 Gonzaga at San Francisco (M), 11 p.m. on ESPN2