The sports world is abuzz with Caitlin Clark becoming the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer in women’s basketball. She hasn’t even gone professional yet, and many already are crowning her the GOAT. That label gets tossed around very liberally these days, but it’s hard to picture many athletes who have transcended their sport the way she has.
Despite what our site editor Nick Shepkowski might have said about me, Caitlin Clark is not my sister. Athleticism is not in my immediate family’s gene pool, or I would have kept following my NBA dreams years ago. Alas, the closest I can get to organized basketball these days is to write about it and create listicles about it.
I would like to demonstrate that ability right now by assembling a listicle of the top 10 scorers in Notre Dame women’s basketball history. It’s a great way to celebrate the new scoring queen in women’s college hoops, and the timing couldn’t be more appropriate:
Two-time Second Team All-American
Two-time First Team All-ACC
Two-time ACC scoring champion
2018 NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player
Skylar Diggins – 2,357
Three-time All-American
Two-time Nancy Liberman Award winner
Two-time Big East Player of the Year
Three-time All-Big East
Two-time Big East assists leader
2011-12 Big East steals leader
Beth Morgan – 2,322
Two-time First Team All-Big East
Two-time First Team All-Midwestern Collegiate Conference
1995-96 Big East 3-point percentage leader
Katryna Gaither – 2,126
Two-time First Team All-Big East
1994-95 First Team All-Midwestern Collegiate Conference
Ruth Riley – 2,072
Three-time All-American
Three-time First Team All-Big East
Three-time Big East Defensive Player of the Year
2001 national player of the year
2001 Naismith Award
2001 NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player
2001 Big East Player of the Year
2001 Big East scoring leader
Three-time Big East blocks leader
Three-time Big East field-goal percentage leader
1998-99 national field-goal percentage leader
Two-time Second Team All-American
Four-time All-ACC
Three-time All-ACC Defense
Three-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year
2014-15 ACC Rookie of the Year
2014-15 national field-goal percentage leader
Four-time ACC field-goal percentage leader
Three-time ACC blocks leader
Two-time All-American
Two-time First Team All-ACC
Two-time ACC All-Defense
2015 ACC Player of the Year
2013 Big East Rookie of the Year
2012-13 Big East free-throw percentage leader
2017-18 Second Team All-ACC
Two-time All-American
2013-14 First Team All-ACC
2012-13 First Team All-Big East
2013-14 ACC free-throw percentage leader
Jacqueline Batteast – 1,874
Four-time All-Big East
2005 Big East Player of the Year
2002 Big East Rookie of the Year
