Iowa star Caitlin Clark, who is on the verge of becoming the all-time NCAA scoring leader in college basketball, announced Thursday she will leave the Hawkeyes after this season and enter the WNBA draft.

“While this season is far from over and we have a lot more goals to achieve, it will be my last one at Iowa,” Clark wrote on social media.

Clark has become the focal point of women’s basketball, with her flashy play and 3-point shot, often from the on-court logo.

The guard, with one more year of eligibility, became the all-time leading women’s scorer in major college basketball by scoring 33 points to pass Lynette Woodard and post her 17th career triple-double in a 108-60 victory over Minnesota on Wednesday night.

In her announcement, she thanked her teammates, coaches and the thousands of fans who have packed arenas across the country to watch her and the sixth-ranked Hawkeyes.

Those fans were chanting “One more year! One more year!” while Clark was being interviewed on the court Wednesday night, when she also broke the NCAA single-season record by sinking eight 3-pointers for a total of 156.

She has 3,650 career points. Woodard had 3,649 points for Kansas from 1977-81, before the NCAA sanctioned the sport. Earlier this month, Clark broke Kelsey Plum’s NCAA scoring record (3,527 points).

Next up is the overall NCAA scoring record of Pete Maravich, who is just 17 points ahead of her.

Clark is expected to be the top pick in the draft on April 15.

The Indiana Fever, who have the first pick, indicated on social media shortly after Clark’s announcement that they intend to select her.

“We’re just simply reminding you that there are only 46 days until the 2024 WNBA Draft,” the team posted after dropping a link to its game tickets and a conspicuous “No. 1.”

• Clark’s final regular-season home game at Iowa is likely to bring one if the priciest tickets in women’s college basketball history.

That’s the word from TickPick.com, which said the average ticket price on the secondary market for the Hawkeyes’ game Sunday against No. 2 Ohio State is a whopping $557, according to USA Today.

Carver-Hawkeye Arena has a listed capacity of 14,998. The school sold out of season tickets long ago and is not selling seats for the rematch with Ohio State.

As of Thursday, the cheapest ticket left, according to TickPick, cost $487. The most expensive available seat cost $2,919.

TickPick has said the average price for Sunday’s game surpassed the $394 cost when Clark broke the NCAA women’s major scoring mark on Feb. 15. Clark’s games held the first five spots on the list, TickPick said, with the sixth-highest average price of $190 coming when South Carolina beat Alabama for coach Dawn Staley’s 600th career win.

• South Carolina, Ohio State, Stanford and UCLA would be the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament if it began now.

The NCAA women’s basketball selection committee did its second reveal of the teams in line for the top 16 seeds. A lot has changed in the two weeks since the initial unveiling, outside of South Carolina and Ohio State’s dominance. Of the original top 16 seeds, 11 lost at least one game.

• Ashlyn Watkins had 21 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 1 South Carolina (28-0, 15-0 SEC) to a 98-61 road win over Arkansas (18-12, 6-9) on Thursday night.

• Freshman Hannah Hidalgo, the ACC’s leading scorer, had 23 points and 12 rebounds to help No. 17 Notre Dame (22-6, 12-5) beat visiting fifth-ranked Virginia Tech 71-58.

The Hokies (23-5, 14-3) had their 10-game winning streak snapped, but ended up claiming their first ACC regular-season title outright as No. 12 North Carolina State defeated No. 19 Syracuse 75-71 in overtime.

• Cameron Brink had a career-high 23 rebounds and 25 points as No 4 Stanford (25-4, 14-3) claimed the Pac-12 regular-season title with a 67-63 victory at No. 11 Oregon State (22-6, 11-6).

• Maddie Nolan scored 20 points and 13th-ranked Colorado (21-7, 11-6 Pac-12) ended a four-game losing streak with a 68-62 win over visiting Washington (15-13, 5-12).

• Kennady McQueen scored 22 points to tie a career high, Alissa Pili had 21 points and 12 rebounds, and No. 18 Utah (21-8, 11-6 Pac-12) scored an 82-67 home victory against Washington State (17-13, 6-11).

Ramey, Kim share first-round lead

Chad Ramey’s first two trips to PGA National as a professional were largely forgettable. He might have a chance to change that this week.

Ramey shot a bogey-free round of 7-under 64 in the opening round of the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches, tying S.H. Kim for the 18-hole lead. Kim had an eagle and five birdies, including one on the finishing hole, to pull into the tie atop the leaderboard.

A group of five players — Cameron Young, Ryan Moore, Chesson Hadley, Austin Eckroat and Andrew Novak — all played in the morning wave and finished one stroke back with 6-under rounds of 65. Also at 65: David Skinns, who played in the afternoon and missed a 11-foot birdie putt on his final hole that would have given him a share of the lead.

Ramey’s past appearances in the event — then known as the Honda Classic — were quick and unremarkable. He missed the cut at PGA National by 10 shots in 2022, missed it by just one stroke last year and failed to shoot a round in the 60s either time. But conditions were perfect when he teed off early Thursday; a course known to often have whipping winds had barely a breeze for much of his round.

Ramey made a 27-foot birdie putt on the opening hole, starting a stretch where he had five birdies in his opening seven holes

Kim — a South Korean who shot a 58 on the Japan Golf Tour in 2021 — holed out from 25 yards on the par-5 third to highlight his round. He holds a first-round lead for the first time in his 45 PGA Tour starts.

Billy Horschel, C.T. Pan, Sam Ryder, Bud Cauley, Erik van Rooyen, Kevin Yu and Chandler Phillips were in a group at 5-under 66.

• Sarah Schmelzel birdied two of of her final three holes for a 4-under 68 to take a one-stroke lead over three players that included fellow American Lilia Vu at the LPGA tournament in Singapore. Also tied for second with Vu at the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club were Linn Grant and Esther Henseleit.

Two-time defending champion Jin Young Ko shot 71.

Longtime Steelers voice steps down

Bill Hillgrove is retiring as the play-by-play voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers after three decades on the job.

The 84-year-old Hillgrove however, will continue to be on the call for the University of Pittsburgh football and men’s basketball teams.

Hillgrove replaced Jack Fleming as the team’s play-by-play voice in 1994 and was there for every major moment in franchise history over the last 30 years, including Super Bowl titles after the 2005 and 2008 seasons.

There was no immediate word on who might be Hillgrove’s replacement.

“(Bill) has played a major role in broadcasting to our amazing fans on our radio network, but he also found time to be part of so many special events since he began working alongside the great Myron Cope on the airwaves in 1994,” Steelers president Art Rooney II said. “Bill will truly be missed by Steelers Nation.”

Medvedev, Rublev on to Dubai semifinals

Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev stayed on course toward a potential rematch for the title at the Dubai Championships after the Russians won their quarterfinals.

Medvedev, the defending champion and No. 1 seed, defeated eighth-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-2, 6-3 to set up a semifinal against fifth-seeded Ugo Humbert.

The second-seeded Rublev advanced when Sebastian Korda retired with an unspecified injury. Rublev was up 6-4, 4-3 at the time.

Rublev will face seventh-seeded Alexander Bublik, who reached the last four after his Czech opponent Jiri Lehecka also retired with an injury. The big-serving Bublik was leading 6-4, 4-1.

One year ago, Medvedev defeated Rublev 6-2, 6-2 in the all-Russian final at the hard-court tournament. The 2021 U.S. Open champion has 20 singles titles — 18 on hard courts — but has never won the same event twice.

Humbert advanced by defeating third-seeded Hubert Hurkacz 3-6, 7-6 (8), 6-3.