Video footage from Caitlin Clark’s legendary performance during a scrimmage against a men’s practice team has emerged.
Clark was the most recent guest on “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman” that was released by Netflix. During the sit-down interview portion of the program, Letterman asked Clark about the famous scrimmage she took part in. Clark said that she had scored like 22 points in 2 minutes against a team full of male players her Iowa Hawkeyes would practice against in college.
“We have a practice team that’s just all guys. They have to be students at the university. They basically just volunteer their time. I think we were down 15. So we make a couple threes, we cut it to like, ten. … So I think I had 22 points in 2 minutes was the moral of the story,” Clark recalled.
The video showed Clark bombing 3-pointers from extremely deep.
One of the most absurd single-player stretches you'll ever seepic.twitter.com/3qeIziEthp https://t.co/hXvD0UoGzm
— Clark Report (@CClarkReport) April 8, 2025
Clark said that she was motivated by having an audience there to watch the game.
“We had a high school girls’ basketball team there that day. So we had a little audience, and they were like jumping out of their chairs, going crazy. Usually I never react when I hit a big shot. Like, I do, but never in a shocked way. After like my fifth three in a row in like a minute, I was like, ‘oh my gosh.’ I couldn’t believe it. We ended up winning, and our boy practice players didn’t hear the end of it. They still don’t,” Clark told Letterman.
"I think I had 22 points in 2 minutes"
— Clark Report (@CClarkReport) April 8, 2025
Caitlin Clark on Iowa's Iconic scrimmage vs their men's practice teampic.twitter.com/h3SrIrEum9
This isn’t the first time “The Scrimmage” has received some media attention. Wright Thompson wrote about it in a March 2024 feature story about Clark. Thompson wrote that the scrimmage occurred on Oct. 20, 2021, just 15 days before the start of Clark’s sophomore season. Clark’s performance in the scrimmage apparently gave her the confidence to start attempting shots from extremely long range — something she started to become known for as her career went on.
Clark averaged 27.0 points per game during her sophomore season. As a senior, she averaged 31.6 points per game and made 5.2 threes per contest. She put together a legendary career, and a lot of that legend was born during the scrimmage.
