The second spherical goes to the Hawkeyes.
Iowa avenged final yr’s nationwide title recreation loss to LSU with a 94-87 win within the Elite Eight on Monday night time. The Hawkeyes advance to their second consecutive Remaining 4 and third in program historical past.
As was to be anticipated, guard Caitlin Clark led the way in which, scoring 41 factors in a sensational efficiency. She tied the document for many made threes in a event recreation (9) and set a number of longer-spanning marks.
On her first three of the sport, Caitlin broke the document for many makes in ladies’s DI NCAA Match historical past. Later, she handed Taylor Robertson’s document for many profession threes and Temeka Johnson’s document for tourney assists.
Clark made extra threes than LSU had as a staff (eight) and solely tried 4 fewer (20) than the Tigers (24).
LSU dominated the boards, outrebounding Iowa 55-37. Angel Reese was notably efficient with 20 rebounds.
However Clark, who’s averaging 32.3 factors throughout this yr’s event, would not be denied. She recorded her third double-double of the event by additionally including 12 assists, giving her a mean of 10 per recreation by 4 2024 event video games.
With two extra wins, she’ll have that elusive nationwide title and a near-ironclad case for finest ladies’s school basketball profession.
It is the one factor lacking in her profession, however by vanquishing the staff that prevented her from hoisting the championship trophy final yr, Clark made an enormous assertion.
Subsequent up on her collision course to that tile: the winner of USC-Connecticut within the Remaining 4.
