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Caitlin Clark was the latest guest on David Letterman’s Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman and recalled one of the most legendary moments of her college career while at the University of Iowa: dropping 22 points in two minute’s against the men’s basketball team’s practice squad.
Now heading into her second season in the WNBA, which begins on May 17 with a matchup against the Chicago Sky, Caitlin Clark will be looking to build on an electric rookie campaign in which she was named the WNBA’s rookie of the year. Before she was lighting up the WNBA, though, Clark was lighting it up at the University of Iowa.
The all-time record holder for scoring in both men’s and women’s college basketball, Clark was such a force that she once famously dropped 22 points in two minutes against the men’s practice squad. Ironically enough, Clark wore the #22 for both the Iowa Hawkeyes and currently wears it for the Indiana Fever.
The footage has been out there for a while now, but Clark recently recalled the moment during her appearance on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman. You can check out both the practice footage and Clark telling David Letterman about the memory below.
Wright was right about the scrimmage scoring barrage. Remember this one @CaitlinClark22? https://t.co/FrFEj8g8ay pic.twitter.com/FnShb2yrjj
— Kathryn Reynolds (@KCReynolds8) March 22, 2024
“So we make a couple 3s, we cut it to like 10, maybe, I don’t even know,” Clark said before Letterman pointed out by ‘we’, she meant ‘she’.
“It was me, but the points went to the Iowa Hawkeyes. So I think I had 22 points in two minutes, was the moral of the story,” she continued. “We had a little audience, and we were up in our practice gym, and they were like jumping out of their chairs going crazy.”
Heading into her second season with the Indiana Fever, Clark is currently the second favorite to be named this year’s Most Valuable Player behind only defending MVP A’Ja Wilson (which was her third MVP award overall).