🏀 Graded 2023 Topps Bowman U Now Caitlin Clark #49 Rookie RC Basketball Card — PSA 10 GEM MINT — The Perfectly Graded Topps Bowman U Now Rookie Card of the West Des Moines Iowa Native Who Rewrote the NCAA All-Time Scoring Record, Led the Iowa Hawkeyes to Back-to-Back National Championship Appearances, and Became the Most Transformational Figure in Women's Basketball Since the Sport's Modern Era Began, a Player Whose Combination of Range, Creativity, and Competitive Edge Introduced Millions of New Fans to the Game Before She Became the WNBA's 1st Overall Draft Pick in 2024

🏀 The Topps Bowman U Now format occupies a specific and meaningful position in the hobby's modern landscape — a product that allows Topps to issue official cards for college athletes before they enter professional drafts, combining the Bowman University branding (historically associated with the earliest officially licensed cards of future professionals) with the Topps Now rapid-production model that creates cards in response to moments as they happen. For Caitlin Clark, that moment arrived repeatedly during the 2023-24 Iowa Hawkeyes season, but the documentation began here — a card that exists because the hobby recognized early that what was happening in Iowa City was too significant to leave undocumented until a professional draft year arrived.

🏀 Clark was born on January 22, 2002, in West Des Moines, Iowa — as home-state as a player can be who then stars for the Hawkeyes — and her college career produced statistics and moments that demanded historical vocabulary rather than standard analytical benchmarks. She surpassed Pete Maravich's NCAA all-time scoring record of 3,667 points, which had stood since the 1969-70 season — a 54-year record from one of the most celebrated scorers in the history of the college game — on her way to a career total that fundamentally repositioned what the all-time scoring record in college basketball looks like. Beyond the counting stats, Clark's ability to make shots from distances that had no precedent in women's basketball — coming off screens at logo range, pulling up from the opposite hash mark, creating her own shot against any defensive scheme — introduced millions of fans who had never watched women's basketball to a player who was doing things they had never seen.

🏀 The Indiana Fever selected her with the first overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft. The Bowman U Now card documents the moment before that — the Iowa chapter, the record-breaking season, the player the professional league would be built around before she played a single professional minute. PSA 10 GEM MINT certified. Condition: NOS.

🏀 Caitlin Clark. West Des Moines, Iowa. Iowa Hawkeyes. NCAA All-Time Scoring Record. Pete Maravich Record Surpassed. Back-to-Back Final Four Appearances. Indiana Fever. 2024 WNBA 1st Overall Draft Pick. 2023 Topps Bowman U Now #49 Rookie RC. PSA 10 GEM MINT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.