50 moments since Title IX: Iowa breaks NCAA record in 2019

Second No. 19: Crowds at Megan Gustafson’s last two video games at Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment set NCAA document for first two rounds of match

Iowa ahead Megan Gustafson hoists a chunk of the web because the Hawkeyes rejoice their NCAA ladies’s basketball match second-round win over Missouri at Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment in Iowa Metropolis, Iowa, on Sunday, March 24, 2019. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Editor’s be aware: That is thirty second in a sequence counting down the High 50 moments in Iowa Hawkeyes ladies’s athletics historical past within the 50 days main as much as the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX in June.

Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment was so loud throughout the 2019 NCAA Girls’s Basketball Event that Tania Davis typically “couldn’t hear myself assume.”

“I couldn’t hear play calls,” the guard mentioned after the second recreation. “I couldn’t hear something.”

The boisterous crowds available to observe Iowa ladies’s basketball had been record-breaking ones.

The mixed two-day attendance of 23,096 broke the document for the primary two rounds of the NCAA Girls’s Basketball Event.

The Carver-Hawkeye crowd noticed No. 2-seeded Iowa outlast Mercer and Missouri on its method to the Candy 16.

“For those who measured the extent of pleasure inside Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment, it might be a ten on the Richter scale,” ESPN commentator John Brickley mentioned at the start of the second-round broadcast.

South Carolina had the earlier document with 21,129 followers in 2015.

The record-breaking weekend doubled because the swan tune for Naismith Participant of the Yr Megan Gustafson and fellow seniors Tania Davis and Hannah Stewart.

Whereas they went on to play within the Candy 16 and Elite Eight, it was their last two video games at Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment.

“It’s undoubtedly bittersweet,” Gustafson mentioned on the time. “Carver has been so good to me.”

Gustafson, Davis and Stewart all kissed the Tigerhawk brand on the Carver-Hawkeye ground after incomes the spot within the Candy 16.

“It was an superior method to end off 4 years right here,” Stewart mentioned after the sport.

Iowa seniors from left: ahead Hannah Stewart, ahead Megan Gustafson and guard Tania Davis acknowledge the followers as they stroll off the court docket after their NCAA ladies’s basketball match win over Missouri at Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment in Iowa Metropolis, Iowa, on Sunday, March 24, 2019. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

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