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🏀 Good morning to everybody however particularly …

CAITLIN CLARK

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

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

This has brought on 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 report, Woodard responded, “Hey, congratulations. Welcome to the social gathering.”

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, that 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 morning for …

THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS

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

• Wiggins, 29, missed the Warriors’ win in opposition to the Wizards on Tuesday. After a tricky begin to the season, Wiggins has been taking part in higher of late, and Golden State has gained 9 of its final 11 video games and vaulted itself right into a play-in spot.
• Wiggins missed the Warriors’ remaining 25 video games final season on account of a private matter as nicely. He returned for the playoffs.

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

• Maloney: “With out Wiggins, they’re going to want children reminiscent of 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 position 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 like his predecessor Sam Darnold, Zach Wilson struggled in three seasons with the Jets after being a top-five choose … now will doubtless 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 greatest guess.

Since 2021, Wilson, 24, ranks final in passer ranking, touchdown-to-interception ratio and completion proportion. However this is not a “bash Zach Wilson” session — he is had sufficient of that — and his circumstances had been removed from excellent within the Massive Apple. He has legit expertise. There is a cause he was the No. 2 choose. Perhaps a brand new house can carry 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 teen. Okay.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 prospect 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 acquired 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 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 greatest report since 2007 — and gained the Assured Charge 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 Massive 12 Preseason Offensive Participant of the 12 months Jalon Daniels taking part in in simply three video games. Daniels will return in 2024.

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

• Backus: “Leipold did such a formidable job with the Jayhawks in 2022 that his identify was talked about with a number of outstanding 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

Pay attention, I like March Insanity as a lot as anybody, but when we’ll have to attend one additional day for the perfect sports activities month (do not even attempt to argue), we would as nicely benefit from it. Here is a journey down Leap Day reminiscence lane, courtesy of Austin Nivison, together with …

• “1980: Gordie Howe scores 800th NHL objective — Howe beat Blues goaltender Mike Liut early within the third interval to succeed in the milestone, and it was made extra spectacular by the truth that Howe was 51 years outdated on the time. Howe additionally obtained to have fun the second together 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 objective that yr earlier than retiring with 801 profession tallies. That stood because the all-time report for simply 14 years, when Wayne Gretzky buried his 802nd profession objective 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