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Iowa, LSU both seeking first NCAA titles in women’s final – American Press
Iowa, LSU each searching for first NCAA titles in girls’s last
Revealed 11:31 am Sunday, April 2, 2023
DALLAS (AP) — Caitlin Clark has captured the eye of basketball followers together with her historic efficiency within the NCAA Match.
Iowa’s sensational guard will attempt to end off the unprecedented run she’s led the Hawkeyes on with a championship after they face LSU on Sunday within the title recreation.
“I believe profitable a nationwide championship is how you place a last bow on it,” Clark mentioned. “I believe that’s the easiest way, however we’re going to offer it the whole lot we now have for 40 extra minutes. We all know that’s all we now have left of our season.”
The dazzling guard, who grew up in Iowa, grew to become the primary girls’s participant to publish back-to-back 40-point performances within the NCAA Match after her 41-point recreation lifted the Hawkeyes over beforehand unbeaten South Carolina within the Last 4.
Now she’ll attempt to etch her identify subsequent to a few of the best ever to win a title — like Cheryl Miller, Sheryl Swoopes, Chamique Holdsclaw, Diana Taurasi, Candace Parker, Maya Moore, Breanna Stewart and A’ja Wilson,
One other SEC crew stands in the way in which: LSU and coach Kim Mulkey, who was impressed watching Clark on Friday evening.
“That’s my first time to see her play in particular person, and I didn’t get to observe the sport as a result of I needed to take care of (the media),” Mulkey mentioned. “Once I did get on the market, I couldn’t take my eyes off of her. Gosh, she’s particular. She’s particular.”
Whereas her crew doesn’t have any title expertise, Mulkey has been on this place 3 times earlier than when she was teaching Baylor. Every time she got here away with the title.
To maintain that good file intact, LSU should discover a technique to decelerate Clark.
“Iowa is a superb crew and I’m going to offer credit score the place it’s due. They’ve the very best participant, the participant of the yr, Caitlin Clark,” LSU guard Alexis Morris mentioned. “She’s wonderful. I respect her recreation.”
It took Mulkey 5 years to get Baylor to the championship recreation. She did it in two with the flagship faculty in her dwelling state after beating Virginia Tech within the semifinals.
The Tigers made the Last 4 in 5 straight seasons from 2004-08 led by girls’s basketball greats Seimone Augustus and Sylvia Fowles. LSU might by no means get to the title recreation till now. The boys’s crew additionally had by no means made it earlier than both.
“It’s so thrilling — I don’t even know the way outdated LSU is,” Mulkey mentioned. “I don’t even know after they began taking part in males’s or girls’s basketball, nevertheless it must be a very long time in the past. And to suppose all these nice gamers which have performed within the NBA and the WNBA, and so they by no means performed for a nationwide championship. That’s mind-boggling to me.”
BIG TEN HISTORY
Iowa is trying to turn out to be solely the second Large Ten crew to ever win the nationwide championship, becoming a member of Purdue, which did it in 1999 underneath Carolyn Peck. The final girls’s crew from the convention to play within the title recreation was Michigan State —and misplaced to Mulkey and Baylor in 2005.
BIG TEN CONNECTION
Angel Reese and Kateri Poole aren’t any strangers to Clark, having performed towards her after they had been within the Large Ten. Reese transferred from Maryland, Poole from Ohio State.
“Fortunately, me and Kateri have performed them earlier than within the Large Ten, so I do know what Caitlin brings to the desk for certain,” Reese mentioned. “Simply ensuring that third and fourth participant, ensuring they don’t go off and get their 20 factors, that’s going to be the distinction.”
PONYTAIL PETE
Clark has been in comparison with LSU nice Pete Maravich ever since she was in highschool. It’s a not far-fetched comparability, based on Iowa’s guard.
“I’m aware of his recreation. I’ve seen lots of his highlights,” Clark mentioned. “Clearly an amazing praise. I noticed someone known as me like Ponytail Pete or one thing like that. I assumed that was form of humorous. I believe only a large praise. Such as you mentioned, I take lots of satisfaction in having the ability to do lots of various things for my crew, whether or not it’s scoring, but additionally I believe the passing can get missed at instances.”
It was an important date around the state for volleyball teams in Iowa, as the latest rankings were released and regional pairings in all five classes were revealed.
The two come into play once regionals reach the championship round, as the higher-ranked team will serve as the host for those games.
All five No. 1 squads remained the same, as Ankeny Centennial (Class 5A), Cedar Rapids Xavier (4A), Mount Vernon (3A), Denver (2A) and Ankeny Christian (1A) held serve.
New teams to the Top-15 include Iowa City West in 5A, Ballard in 4A, Wapsie Valley in 2A and Stanton in 1A. The entire 3A poll remained the same while Sidney made one of the biggest climbs, moving to ninth from 12th in 1A.
Regional play for 1A and 2A begins Oct. 21 with 3A, 4A and 5A starting Oct. 22. The state tournament is scheduled for Nov. 4-7 in Coralville from the Xtream Arena. Complete regional pairings can be found on Bound.
Class 5A
1. Ankeny Centennial; 2. Pleasant Valley; 3. Ankeny; 4. West Des Moines Dowling; 5. Indianola; 6. Waukee Northwest; 7. Cedar Falls; 8. Cedar Rapids Prairie; 9. Waukee; 10. Iowa City Liberty; 11. West Des Moines Valley; 12. Sioux City East; 13. Iowa City West; 14. Iowa City High; 15. Linn-Mar.
Class 4A
1. Cedar Rapids Xavier; 2. Sioux City Bishop Heelan; 3. North Scott; 4. Clear Creek-Amana; 5. Lewis Central; 6. Pella; 7. Glenwood; 8. Carlisle; 9. Marion; 10. Adel-ADM; 11. Norwalk; 12. Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 13. MOC-Floyd Valley; 14. Ballard; 15. Grinnell.
Class 3A
1. Mount Vernon; 2. Western Christian; 3. West Delaware; 4. Dubuque Wahlert; 5. Davenport Assumption; 6. Sioux Center; 7. Carroll Kuemper; 8. Mid-Prairie; 9. Cherokee; 10. Wilton; 11. Solon; 12. Anamosa; 13. Roland-Story; 14. Clarinda; 15. Nevada.
Class 2A
1. Denver; 2. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont; 3. Dyersville Beckman; 4. Dike-New Hartford; 5. Aplington-Parkersburg; 6. South Hardin; 7. Boyden-Hull; 8. Pella Christian; 9. Iowa City Regina; 10. Hinton; 11. Grundy Center; 12. Sumner-Fredericksburg; 13. Wapsie Valley; 14. West Burlington; 15. Shenandoah.
Class 1A
1. Ankeny Christian; 2. Holy Trinity; 3. Saint Ansgar; 4. Riverside; 5. BCLUW; 6. Janesville; 7. North Tama; 8. Don Bosco; 9. Sidney; 10. River Valley; 11. Akron-Westfield; 12. Stanton; 13. Fremont-Mills; 14. Southwest Valley; 15. Gladbrook-Reinbeck.
Week 6 of the 2024 Iowa high school football season has wrapped up, and High School on SI is continuing its weekly computer rankings for the season.
The Dowling Maroons kept their top five placing in this week’s 5A Iowa computer rankings after a thrilling 41-35 victory over Ankeny Centennial. They face a strong Urbandale team on Friday, to keep their momentum going.
The top of the 5A computer rankings stay the same this week as the Bettendorf Bulldogs take home another win, this time defeating Kennedy 33-14. The Bulldogs look forward to Friday, where they will travel to Davenport Central in hopes to hold their place in the standings.
SBLive’s formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
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Here are SBLive’s latest Iowa football computer rankings, as of Oct. 7, 2024:
IOWA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS
CLASS 5A | CLASS 4A
CLASS 3A | CLASS 2A
CLASS 1A | CLASS A
CLASS 8 MAN
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JELD-WEN, a manufacturer of windows and doors in Grinnell, has announced it will be laying off 152 workers effective Nov. 7.
The announcement was made on Iowa’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) site.
The company, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, was founded in 1960 and has 18,000 employees, with operating facilities in 16 countries in North America and Europe with 2023 sales of $4.3 billion, according to the company’s website.
JELD-WEN did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, JELD-WEN announced the closing of its Hawkins, Wisconsin facility, affecting 338 employees, and in Vista, California, resulting in the loss of 110 jobs.
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