Caitlin Clark‘s already considerable legend continues to grow, thanks to David Letterman and Netflix. The WNBA star appeared on the latest episode of Letterman’s program, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” which premiered on the streaming service on Tuesday. 

During the interview — which takes place at Ball State, Letterman’s alma mater — the famous late-night talk show host brings up a scrimmage that occurred before Clark’s sophomore season at Iowa. 

“There’s one iconic scrimmage,” Letterman begins, as Clark confirms it happened. 

“But nobody knows if it actually happened because nobody saw it,” she responds. 

“You know it happened,” Letterman said.

Clark explains that the practice session matched the women’s basketball team against a squad of men, who had to be Iowa students. Clark’s team was down by 15 points when she began knocking down 3-pointers — a lot of them.

She began modestly saying “we make a couple of threes,” but Letterman nudges her to tell the whole story. 

“I think I had 22 points in two minutes,” she acknowledges. 

The practice session has taken on near-mythological proportions in the five years since it was played in Iowa City. ESPN’s Wright Thompson wrote about it for a March 2024 profile of Clark, talking to teammates, coaches and student managers who witnessed the performance. 

Clark is rightfully proud of the scrimmage, but downplayed it with Letterman “because nobody saw it,” as she said. As clips of the interview circulated through social media, the internet took that as a challenge, And indeed, footage of the legendary scrimmage has been found and posted online. 

“Remember this one?” asked Kathryn Reynolds. Everyone can remember it now after watching the footage. The 45-second clip shows Clark making five 3-pointers from a variety of angles and distances, from the top of the arc, from the center-court logo, off-balance and running down the left sideline. 

“It was funny because we had a high school girls’ basketball team there that day,” Clark continued with Letterman. “So we had a little audience and we were up in our practice gym, and they were like jumping out of their chairs going crazy.”

The Indiana Fever guard admitted that even she was surprised by her scoring outburst.

“Our boy practice players didn’t hear the end of it,” she said. “They still don’t. I love to bring it up to them.”

Clark went on to become the all-time leading scorer in college basketball — men’s and women’s — with 3,951 points. She led the Fever to the playoffs and was named WNBA rookie of the year last season after scoring 19.2 points per game, averaging 8.4 assists (leading the league) and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 24% on 3-pointers.