IOWA Women are playing for the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!! Caitlin with an incredible 41 point effort. Bring on LSU!!!
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I've never seen Iowa play for a national title in my lifetime (I don't follow wrestling). What a privilege it's been to watch CC and this team play.
Let's do this!
Go Hawks!
Let's do this!
Go Hawks!
If you would have showed me Clark’s 3 point numbers and the team rebounds I would have thought Iowa got blown out. Amazing victory!
Seriously though, why wouldn’t you want to play for Bluder? A winning product and coaches who genuinely care about their players.
I told my wife that Lisa needs to use Brooks’ speech before the Finland game. “If you lose this game you’ll take it to your fvcking grave. Your fvcking grave.” Then walk out.
Finally looked at the game statistics...SC had 2X the rebounds and took 20 more shots.
That's nothing short of incredible.
That's nothing short of incredible.
“And we were winning the entire game!”
via @BraydonRoberts5
On February 22, 1980, the United States hockey team faced the Soviet Union in the Olympic semifinal game. No one thought the United States could win. That Soviet Union team seemed unbeatable at the time. The Soviets had gone 5-3-1 in the year prior against NHL teams. The United States fielded a bunch of college players. In an exhibition leading up to the Olympics, the Soviets won 10-3.
And yet we all know how that game ended. The United States won 4-3 in one of the most surprising upsets in sports history.
South Carolina came into this Final Four game 36-0. They were the defending national champions. Vegas had the Gamecocks as a 11.5-point favorite for the game.
But Iowa has one thing that the 1980 United States hockey team didn’t: Caitlin Clark.
MORE HERE: https://iowa.rivals.com/news/iowa-77-south-carolina-73-instant-classic
What. A. Game.
On February 22, 1980, the United States hockey team faced the Soviet Union in the Olympic semifinal game. No one thought the United States could win. That Soviet Union team seemed unbeatable at the time. The Soviets had gone 5-3-1 in the year prior against NHL teams. The United States fielded a bunch of college players. In an exhibition leading up to the Olympics, the Soviets won 10-3.
And yet we all know how that game ended. The United States won 4-3 in one of the most surprising upsets in sports history.
South Carolina came into this Final Four game 36-0. They were the defending national champions. Vegas had the Gamecocks as a 11.5-point favorite for the game.
But Iowa has one thing that the 1980 United States hockey team didn’t: Caitlin Clark.
MORE HERE: https://iowa.rivals.com/news/iowa-77-south-carolina-73-instant-classic
What. A. Game.
I didn’t think I could ever root for a team harder than I root for the Iowa football and men’s basketball teams. But that game was next level. My wife, son and daughter were locked into that game from tip off and I’ll be damned if someone didn’t yell happily or throw a high five on every Iowa basket. Will cherish this night forever and it has elevated Iowa women’s hoops into a special place of my favorite teams list. Damn that was fun.
We all need our own tvs and space during games like this but we text every once in a while throughout lol
The security guard here was ready to beat down CC’s dad and brother.
Awesome performance. Caitlin is obviously the best college WBB player ever.
Why wouldn't a good center portal transfer not want to come and play center for Iowa? I mean, Lisa B/ JJ obviously develop centers (like the last 6 years). Three of five starters returning from a NCAA final team. I would think Iowa City becomes a magnet in about a week.
Why wouldn't a good center portal transfer not want to come and play center for Iowa? I mean, Lisa B/ JJ obviously develop centers (like the last 6 years). Three of five starters returning from a NCAA final team. I would think Iowa City becomes a magnet in about a week.
If there’s no scholarship available they need to set said center up ASAP with a big time NIL sponsor that would more than cover her tuition and living expenses. That’s gonna be the new cheat code with NIL for schools going forward I’m afraid. Not saying I like it but that’s probably where this thing is going here real soon.
I also get partial credit....not only did I not watch.... I bet money on SC. I'll be laying more on LSU for tomorrow.
You're welcome!
They are so easy to root for, great coach and players that don’t back down one inch.
They are taking woman’s college basketball by storm
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South Carolina came into Friday's game as a defending champion. Undefeated. The nation's best defense. A wire-to-wire #1 team who received all but one of the first-place votes in the AP poll all season*. And, accordingly, a 12-point favorite to reach their second-straight NCAA championship game.
*the lone rogue first-place vote went to Indiana, in the February 20 poll, six days before... well, you know.
Iowa itself was never any slouch this season, not with the force of nature that is Caitlin Clark commanding the court, giving the Hawkeyes a fighter's chance against anybody — well, anybody outside of the impervious Gamecocks, of course.
Right?
"I'm so proud of my women because I think they're the only people that really believed," head coach Lisa Bluder said after Iowa's monumental 77-73 victory Friday night. "I don't think anybody else, unless you were in black and gold, believed that we were going to win that game."
Maybe Bluder's exaggerating or oversimplifying that statement a touch. Victorious coaches tend to do so.
But what makes Iowa's victory — and this season, this team -- so remarkable is that the Hawkeyes didn't need anyone else to believe. They had an audacious gameplan on both sides of the ball, three years of camaraderie in the starting lineup, and a mental edge that's got them 40 minutes away from the promised land.
MORE HERE: https://iowa.rivals.com/news/iowa-s-moment-is-now
South Carolina came into Friday's game as a defending champion. Undefeated. The nation's best defense. A wire-to-wire #1 team who received all but one of the first-place votes in the AP poll all season*. And, accordingly, a 12-point favorite to reach their second-straight NCAA championship game.
*the lone rogue first-place vote went to Indiana, in the February 20 poll, six days before... well, you know.
Iowa itself was never any slouch this season, not with the force of nature that is Caitlin Clark commanding the court, giving the Hawkeyes a fighter's chance against anybody — well, anybody outside of the impervious Gamecocks, of course.
Right?
"I'm so proud of my women because I think they're the only people that really believed," head coach Lisa Bluder said after Iowa's monumental 77-73 victory Friday night. "I don't think anybody else, unless you were in black and gold, believed that we were going to win that game."
Maybe Bluder's exaggerating or oversimplifying that statement a touch. Victorious coaches tend to do so.
But what makes Iowa's victory — and this season, this team -- so remarkable is that the Hawkeyes didn't need anyone else to believe. They had an audacious gameplan on both sides of the ball, three years of camaraderie in the starting lineup, and a mental edge that's got them 40 minutes away from the promised land.
MORE HERE: https://iowa.rivals.com/news/iowa-s-moment-is-now
Can't believe that team didn't have any 3 point specialists. I thought they should have just taken their open shots and rebound ,score off the easy put backs. They crushed us on the offensive glass. LSU has a more balanced attack. Hell of an effort by the Hawks.
Anyone check on Joensy lately? Clark a media sensation, Iowa playing for a Natty….
I bet they have to keep sharp objects away from him at the moment.
I bet they have to keep sharp objects away from him at the moment.
I believe that the U of Iowa's only national championship in a team sport played head-to-head with a tournament - "My team beat that team then that team then that team and won the national championship" (as opposed to scoring among individual events at a single gathering like wrestling, gymnastics, rifle shooting; or a vote/poll like in football) is 1986 women's field hockey.
