Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and USC’s JuJu Watkins dominate NCAA women’s basketball

The GIST: With just over three weeks until March Madness, two of the biggest names in women’s college hoops are crushing records and commanding our attention day in and day out. You know this…ballin’.

Senior Caitlin Clark, No. 4 Iowa: Already the owner of the all-time NCAA women’s scoring record, Clark — who’s averaging over 32 points per game — is now just 51 points away from breaking former LSU and NBA star Pete Maravich’s all-time NCAA record of 3,667 with two regular-season games to go.

• And she’s inching toward even more history along the way: the Hawkeye notched her 16th career triple-double yesterday, making her second among all NCAA Division 1 women and men, behind only WNBA three-point queen Sabrina Ionescu, who had 26 at Oregon.

Freshman JuJu Watkins, No. 7 USC: The hometown hero is catapulting USC women’s basketball back into the national conversation in her first collegiate season. Watkins notched her 12th 30-point game of the season yesterday, making her the highest-scoring Trojan freshman ever. Just the beginning.