Footage from Caitlin Clark's legendary scrimmage against men's team emerges

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.

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.