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Caitlin Clark tells David Letterman she scored 22 points in 2 minutes during ‘iconic scrimmage’ at Iowa​

CLEVELAND, OHIO - APRIL 07: Caitlin Clark #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes reacts in the second half during the 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament National Championship game against the South Carolina Gamecocks at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on April 07, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

By Mark Puleo
33

April 9, 2025

David Letterman’s Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” was named for guests like Caitlin Clark. In Tuesday’s episode, the Indiana Fever star told the legendary talk show host about an iconic 2021 practice that has since become known as “The Scrimmage.”

Playing against the team’s practice squad of men, Clark told Letterman her Hawkeyes were down 15 points when she began to cut into the deficit single-handedly.

“So we make a couple 3s, we cut it to like 10, maybe, I don’t even know,” she said before Letterman wittingly asked if “we” was referring to just Clark.

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“It was me, but the points went to the Iowa Hawkeyes,” Clark answered with a laugh as the live crowd at Ball State erupted. “So I think I had 22 points in two minutes, was the moral of the story,” she continued, setting off another round of rapturous laughs from Letterman and the crowd.

Stories from the scrimmage were first detailed by ESPN in 2024 and footage of the practice was later shared by Iowa director of player development Kathryn Reynolds.





Clark initially downplayed the performance to Letterman, saying “nobody saw it” but later told him that a small crowd of high school girls basketball players were in attendance, and they couldn’t believe their eyes.

“We had a little audience, and we were up in our practice gym, and they were like jumping out of their chairs going crazy,” she said. The normally stoic Clark told Letterman she couldn’t contain herself either.



“Usually, I never react when I hit a big shot, or like I do, but never in a shocked way. (But that day) after like my fifth 3 in a row in like a minute, I was like ‘oh my gosh,’ like I couldn’t believe it and I was running around. We ended up winning and our boy practice players didn’t hear the end of it. They still don’t, I still love to bring it up, we talk a lot of crap.”




The 2021 scrimmage came weeks after Clark’s freshman season, in which she led Iowa to the NCAA Tournament and averaged 26.6 points, 7.1 assists and 3.9 3s per game. She improved that scoring average in each of the next three seasons and left college with 3,951 points, the most in NCAA Division I history.

Clark returned to Carver-Hawkeye Arena in February to have her No. 22 jersey retired and hoisted into the rafters.

She was drafted No. 1 in the 2024 WNBA Draft by Indiana and led the Fever to the playoffs as a rookie, averaging 19.2 points, 8.4 assists and 3.1 3s per game en route to winning Rookie of the Year.
 

Caitlin Clark tells David Letterman she scored 22 points in 2 minutes during ‘iconic scrimmage’ at Iowa​

CLEVELAND, OHIO - APRIL 07: Caitlin Clark #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes reacts in the second half during the 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament National Championship game against the South Carolina Gamecocks at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on April 07, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

By Mark Puleo
33

April 9, 2025

David Letterman’s Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” was named for guests like Caitlin Clark. In Tuesday’s episode, the Indiana Fever star told the legendary talk show host about an iconic 2021 practice that has since become known as “The Scrimmage.”

Playing against the team’s practice squad of men, Clark told Letterman her Hawkeyes were down 15 points when she began to cut into the deficit single-handedly.

“So we make a couple 3s, we cut it to like 10, maybe, I don’t even know,” she said before Letterman wittingly asked if “we” was referring to just Clark.

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“It was me, but the points went to the Iowa Hawkeyes,” Clark answered with a laugh as the live crowd at Ball State erupted. “So I think I had 22 points in two minutes, was the moral of the story,” she continued, setting off another round of rapturous laughs from Letterman and the crowd.

Stories from the scrimmage were first detailed by ESPN in 2024 and footage of the practice was later shared by Iowa director of player development Kathryn Reynolds.





Clark initially downplayed the performance to Letterman, saying “nobody saw it” but later told him that a small crowd of high school girls basketball players were in attendance, and they couldn’t believe their eyes.

“We had a little audience, and we were up in our practice gym, and they were like jumping out of their chairs going crazy,” she said. The normally stoic Clark told Letterman she couldn’t contain herself either.



“Usually, I never react when I hit a big shot, or like I do, but never in a shocked way. (But that day) after like my fifth 3 in a row in like a minute, I was like ‘oh my gosh,’ like I couldn’t believe it and I was running around. We ended up winning and our boy practice players didn’t hear the end of it. They still don’t, I still love to bring it up, we talk a lot of crap.”




The 2021 scrimmage came weeks after Clark’s freshman season, in which she led Iowa to the NCAA Tournament and averaged 26.6 points, 7.1 assists and 3.9 3s per game. She improved that scoring average in each of the next three seasons and left college with 3,951 points, the most in NCAA Division I history.

Clark returned to Carver-Hawkeye Arena in February to have her No. 22 jersey retired and hoisted into the rafters.

She was drafted No. 1 in the 2024 WNBA Draft by Indiana and led the Fever to the playoffs as a rookie, averaging 19.2 points, 8.4 assists and 3.1 3s per game en route to winning Rookie of the Year.

 
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Sometimes. But especially in these current days and times. We can never forget.

Yall forget I was the OG Caitlin defender up in here but then... woo.

But I was just messing with my brother @therealjondoe I think it would be a dope freestyle of Jon goes in on a very negro spiritual based beat praising Caitlin but on some white rappers got something to say especially now but a church like choir is hating on the hook. It's like 6/8 bars then the choir singing Aw hell nah!!! Then another 6 bars. And they answer back that ain't funky white boy!!
 
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Sometimes. But especially in these current days and times. We can never forget.

Yall forget I was the OG Caitlin defender up in here but then... woo.

But I was just messing with my brother @therealjondoe I think it would be a dope freestyle of Jon goes in on a very negro spiritual based beat praising Caitlin but on some white rappers got something to say especially now but a church like choir is hating on the hook. It's like 6/8 bars then the choir singing Aw hell nah!!! Then another 6 bars. And they answer back that ain't funky white boy!!
No thank you
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