Game Notes: 2-Seed Iowa Vs. 1-Seed South Carolina in Final Four

THE SETTING
2-Seed Iowa is ready to battle 1-Seed South Carolina within the Ultimate 4 of the NCAA Event contained in the American Airways Heart in Dallas, Texas. Tip-off for the competition is ready for 8:30 p.m. (CT).

STREAM
The sport will broadcast on ESPN. Andraya Carter, Rebecca Lobo, Ryan Ruocco, and Holly Rowe will name the motion.

THE SERIES
This would be the second assembly between the 2 packages. South Carolina leads the all-time collection, 1-0.

IOWA’S 2-SEED HISTORY
– The Hawkeyes have been a 2-Seed thrice since 2019.
– That is the fifth time in class historical past Iowa has been tabbed as a 2-Seed.
– The Hawkeyes are 12-4 all-time within the NCAA Event as a 2-Seed (1993, 1996, 2019, 2022).
– Iowa’s Ultimate 4 look got here in 1993 and the newest Elite Eight displaying in 2019.

SCOUTING SOUTH CAROLINA
– The Gamecocks received the SEC common season title and the SEC Event.
– USC has a median win margin of +29.5 ppg.
– South Carolina’s path to the Ultimate 4: Norfolk St., S. Florida, UCLA, and Maryland.
– Zia Cooke leads South Carolina’s offense with 15.1 ppg.
– Aliyah Boston almost averages a double-double with 13.2 ppg and 9.8 RPG.
– USC is giving up 51.1 ppg on the defensive facet of the ground.

WHAT 2 WATCH 4
– Clark is the third Large Ten participant to attain 900 factors in a single season — at 984, she is second on the convention’s single-season scoring listing. The Large Ten single-season scoring chief is Iowa’s Megan Gustafson (1,001 in 2018-19).
– Clark wants one 3-pointer to be the all-time chief in most made 3FGs at Iowa.
– Clark has registered 17 double-doubles this yr which is for fifteenth nationally and leads the Large Ten. She has 43 in her profession.
– Clark leads the nation in video games this season with 25 factors, 5 boards, and 5 assists. (18)
– Clark is the one participant in Large Ten ladies’s basketball historical past to be Prime-10 in each factors and assists.
– Clark wants 16 factors to change into the primary Division I participant to eclipse 1,000 factors and 300 assists in the identical season.

PROGRAM QUICK HITTERS
– Iowa set a program file for many wins in a single season over Louisville to advance to its second Ultimate 4 in class historical past.
– Iowa received its third Large Ten Event title since 2019, over Ohio State which was the most important marging of victory in BTT
Championship historical past.
– Caitlin Clark was named the Large Ten Participant of the 12 months for the second consective season.
– Monika Czinano and Clark had been unanimous All-Large Ten choices.
– Lisa Bluder and Clark had been named to each Naismith Semifinalists Lists. (COY/POY)
– Since 2008, Bluder’s groups personal a 230-42 file within Carver-Hawkeye Area. In that stretch, the Hawkeyes have posted
three undefeated seasons at house. During the last eight years, Iowa has dropped the second-fewest common season house
video games within the Large Ten.
– Iowa welcomes 4 new gamers to the 2022-23 roster: Molly Davis, Jada Gyamfi, Taylor McCabe, and Hannah Stuelke. Gyamfi,
McCabe, and Stuelke are all true freshmen, hailing from Johnston, Cedar Rapids and Fremont, Nebraska, respectively. Davis is a
fourth-year switch from Central Michigan.
– Clark was named The Athletic Nationwide Participant of the 12 months and a unanimous AP First Workforce All-American.
– Czinano was tabbed as a Lisa Leslie Heart of the 12 months Semifinalist.
– Iowa set a program file towards Evansville scoring 115 factors earlier this season.
– Iowa has had 5 out of the final six Large Ten Gamers of the 12 months.
– The Hawkeyes have a nation’s greatest 5 wins towards AP Prime 10 opponents.
– Clark was the Large Ten Event MVP for the second straight season which has solely occurred thrice in convention
historical past.
– For the primary time within the Lisa Bluder period, the Hawkeyes received 15 Large Ten common season convention video games.
– That is Iowa’s twenty ninth journey in class historical past to the Large Dance.
– During the last seven postseason video games, Gabbie Marshall is capturing 50% from 3-point vary. (23-46)
– Bluder owns a 493-248 (.664) file and a 247-141 (.637) convention mark at Iowa. In her 38 seasons as a head coach, Bluder is 849-389 (.685).