Hawkeyes fans flock to ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ show

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – Early within the day, the stage was set in Iowa Metropolis for what turned out to be an unbelievable end in girls’s faculty basketball.

As a testomony to how huge of a sport between the Iowa Hawkeyes and Indiana Hoosiers this was anticipated to be, ESPN arrange store in Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment beforehand for his or her School GameDay present. It was the primary time the Hawkeyes have hosted School GameDay for a basketball sport.

“School GameDay is one thing, each for basketball and soccer, that everybody simply needs to have as soon as. The Dukes, the Carolinas, the Michigan, Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia—they get it yearly and, you recognize, we could be on that stage,” Max Baum, a sophomore who confirmed as much as be within the crowd, mentioned.

Hawkeyes fan Condra Allred mentioned ESPN’s selection, “exhibits how huge Large Ten Basketball is that this yr.”

“I might say Caitlin [Clark] and the entire basketball group is transcending basketball for ladies,” Valerie Eickholt, one other fan, mentioned. “We’re simply displaying them the way it will get achieved.”

Eickholt added, “Iowa doesn’t all the time get that focus that it deserves in each sport. Whether or not it’s wrestling, soccer, males or girls’s basketball. As we speak’s an enormous day.“

“It’s the broadcasting world’s means of telling you that your occasion is particular,” Baum mentioned. “It’s particular. Take it in. Take pleasure in it.”

The College of Iowa’s girls’s basketball group beat the Indiana Hoosiers by one level on the buzzer Sunday afternoon.

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