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BOB'S CORNER: Our USA resident and regular correspondent BOB CRAVEN has all the big news this week, mainly about scoring! First it's Caitlin Clark raising the NCAA scoring bar for women AND men, then it is LeBron James going above and beyond the 40,000 NBA points mark. remarkable stuff.

IOWA's long-range bomber, Caitlin Clark, is now the all-time scoring leader in NCAA history, male or female. 

She recently passed Pistol Pete Maravich's 54-year-old record when Clark's No. 6-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes defeated No. 2-ranked Ohio State, 93-83. 

I suppose it's inevitable that there will be some controversy in some circles about her new record, since in Maravich's day, players were only allowed to play three years of varsity basketball, and there was no 3-point line then, either. 

Clark also announced that she will not come back to Iowa next season, but will enter the WNBA draft and will almost certainly be the No. 1 pick, which is owned by the Indiana Fever. 

Interestingly, the WNBA has already seen a surge in ticket sales for the upcoming season.

IN the NBA, LeBron James became the first player ever to score 40,000 points in a career. 

James, 39, is playing in his 21st season in the league (one off Vince Carter's record of 22 years) and he's currently the oldest player in the league. 

He will finish this season averaging about 25 ppg - there hasn't been an "oldest player" to average even 10 points a game since John Stockton averaged 10.8 in 2002-2003. 

Kareem averaged 23.4 points as an "oldest player" in 1985-1986.

At the three-quarter pole of the NBA season, the Boston Celtics are five games clear of everyone else for the league's best record, although they had their 11-game winning streak snapped this week by the Cleveland Cavaliers. 

The short-handed Phoenix Suns blew a 22-point lead in the second half but rebounded to defeat the Denver Nuggets.  In that game Phoenix big man, Jusuf Nurkic fouled out with two and a half minutes left while trying to defend Nikola Jokic. 

Nurkic ended up with 12 rebounds one night after grabbing 31 boards against Oklahoma City, tying for the most rebounds this century, and one of only four 30-rebound games during that time.

IN NCAA D-I men's action, No. 3 Purdue was led by its 224cm big guy, Zach Edey with 28 points in a win over No. 12 Illinois. 

The win clinched Purdue becoming the first team in 17 years to win back-to-back Big 10 regular- season conference titles outright.

EARLIER this week we celebrated the 62nd anniversary of one of the greatest individual efforts in the history of our sport:  in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in a neutral court game against the NY Knicks, Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game, shattering the NBA single game scoring record of 71 points set in 1960 by Elgin Baylor. 

Other than the sheer magnitude of the number of points Wilt scored, the most amazing thing about that game for me is that, despite being a poor free throw shooter his entire career, he was 28-of-32 from the line in that game. 

The best quote from that game came from the Knicks' backup center, Darrell Imhoff, who had to defend Wilt most of the game, due to injury to their starting centre. 

When asked by the media who was defending Wilt, he quickly replied "nobody".