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Hawkeyes’ star Caitlin Clark waves off unguarded South Carolina player as Iowa stuns title favorite
It was going to take a particular staff with a particular participant to beat undefeated South Carolina within the ladies’s NCAA Event.
It was additionally going to require a participant with main confidence as a way to finish the Gamecocks’ excellent season.
Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes, dribbles in opposition to Raven Johnson, #25 of the South Carolina Gamecocks, in the course of the third quarter of the 2023 NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Event Closing 4 semifinal recreation at American Airways Middle on March 31, 2023, in Dallas, Texas. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Photographs)
Enter Caitlin Clark.
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The Iowa junior placed on a present Friday evening in Dallas, Texas, scoring 41 factors in a 77-73 win to ship the Hawkeyes to this system’s first nationwide championship recreation.
Clark carried the Hawkeyes with aptitude, at one level leaving South Carolina guard Raven Johnson large open above the three-point line, waving her off and daring her to shoot.
Clark and the Hawkeyes snapped South Carolina’s 42-game successful streak and the Gamecocks’ dream of repeating as nationwide champions.
“We had nothing to lose. I’ve all the boldness on the earth on this group, they usually imagine proper again in me, and that’s all you want,” Clark stated. “All we do is imagine in each other, and we love one another to loss of life, and that’s what a real staff is. If you need an instance of a staff, that’s what that is.”
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Clark – the ladies’s faculty basketball participant of the yr – grew to become the primary ladies’s participant to attain 40-plus factors in back-to-back NCAA Event video games.
Caitlin Clark, #22, reacts after their win over the South Carolina Gamecocks in the course of the semifinals of the NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Event Closing 4 at American Airways Middle on March 31, 2023, in Dallas, Texas. (Ben Solomon/NCAA Pictures by way of Getty Photographs)
“I like me some Caitlin Clark,” Iowa coach Lisa Bluder stated. “We’ve been speaking about being mission-focused lots this yr, and we had a recreation plan and these guys executed so nicely. That’s South Carolina we simply beat, people. Superb.”
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The Hawkeyes will face LSU within the nationwide championship recreation on Sunday, as coach Kim Mulkey has her Tigers one recreation away from a championship in simply her second season in Baton Rouge.
Caitlin Clark, #22, of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after the Hawkeyes beat the South Carolina Gamecocks 77-73 in the course of the 2023 NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Event Closing 4 semifinal recreation at American Airways Middle on March 31, 2023, in Dallas, Texas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Photographs)
“Tonight confirmed how enjoyable ladies’s basketball is,” Clark stated. “I’m certain some individuals wished this was a sequence of seven video games.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.