The best way the Iowa fan base continues to embrace this No. 6 Hawkeyes girls’s basketball crew is fairly particular.
The College of Iowa athletics division introduced on Friday that the top-10 tussle between Iowa and Indiana slated for 3 weeks from right this moment is formally a sellout crowd.
It’s additionally been flexed right into a nationwide tv broadcast on ESPN. Hats off to Hawkeye followers and hats off to the worldwide chief for recognizing that there’s one thing particular transpiring in Iowa Metropolis.
𝟏𝟓,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 💪
Our sport vs. Indiana on Feb. 26 is formally 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭!#Hawkeyes pic.twitter.com/EcIGKXGd5b
— Iowa Girls’s Basketball (@IowaWBB) February 3, 2023
Caitlin Clark and Monika Czinano are each proper within the thick of the nationwide participant of the 12 months chase. Every was named to the Picket Award Late Season Prime 20.
The duo mixed for 70 (!) factors within the Hawkeyes’ final sport towards No. 9 Maryland. That wound up being a 96-82 Iowa win over the Terps the place Clark poured in 42 and Czinano added 28.
“Extraordinarily proud of how we performed. Our bench produced huge time and we defended the 3-point line properly too. I’m undecided how one can’t name Clark the Nationwide Participant of the 12 months with the season she has had. Czinano did her factor on the low block and was unbelievably environment friendly. I’m actually pleased with this group with the fireplace they performed with,” Iowa head girls’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder mentioned afterwards.
It’s exhausting to argue with what coach Bluder needed to say proper there. Clark is doing issues that merely haven’t been performed earlier than up to now 20 years.
First, she joined Dwyane Wade as the one males’s or girls’s faculty basketball participant for the reason that 1999-2000 season to register a triple-double towards a top-2 Related Press foe.
Then, she did one thing no person else has performed in faculty basketball within the final 20 years. Clark scored 42 factors, grabbed seven rebounds, dished out seven assists all whereas taking pictures higher than 60% from the ground and 90% from the free throw line. No one else has performed that.
This crew is an absolute deal with to observe proper now. It’s not misplaced on the Hawkeye fan base both as they proceed to swallow up tickets left and proper. The Iowa-Indiana date now marks the third common season sellout in program historical past, overtaking final 12 months’s common season finale towards Michigan as the latest.
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