Iowa women's basketball

2023 - 4 - 2

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LSU beats Iowa to win its first NCAA women's basketball ... (CNN)

The LSU Tigers defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes 102-85 Sunday to win the program's first NCAA women's basketball national championship in Dallas, Texas.

Swoopes set the record playing in fives games compared to Clark’s six game total. Carson finished with 22 points to lead the Tigers. The Tigers’ 59 first half points set a new record for most points scored in a half in a women’s championship game and gave LSU a 17-point lead headed to the locker room.

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An Open Letter to the Iowa Women's Basketball Team: Why We ... (khak.com)

You inspired fans to fill Carver-Hawkeye Arena for the regular-season finale and two NCAA tournament home games. When you went to Seattle, for the Round of 16, ...

I'm so proud of the women they are. I'm so proud of what they stand for... A letter of thanks. I'm not surprised because this is a team full of winners, on and off the court. A letter of admiration. I believe that's what you did on Sunday.

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Opinion | Toasting the Iowa women's basketball team's historic season (UI The Daily Iowan)

Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder cuts down the net after a victory over No.5 Louisville at the 2023 NCAA Elite Eight women's basketball game at Climate Pledge Arena ...

“ I think they set a really good example for other people that we have in that locker room of what it takes to be able to play at this level, on this stage. Now, the Hawkeyes will have to move on without two of their most crucial starters. O’Grady played less than Stuelke, with just two points and 1.4 rebounds in 32 games this season. The Hawkeyes’ season was nothing short of historic in many ways. “Why does it have to be the same teams winning it year after year?,” senior Kate Martin said on Saturday. “Our team plays it the right way.

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Iowa fans invited to welcome Hawkeyes back from Dallas Monday (KWQC-TV6)

Iowa Athletics Department says they plan to hold a season celebration announcement at the event.

Iowa Athletics Department says they plan to hold a season celebration announcement at At 1:45 p.m., the team will arrive at the Iowa River Landing in Coralville, according to the University. CORALVILLE, Iowa (KWQC) - Iowa fans will get the chance to welcome Iowa Women’s Basketball team Monday, after their run in the NCAA tournament.

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Leistikow: The things we'll remember from the best Iowa women's ... (Hawk Central)

DALLAS − As they waited outside the Iowa locker room at American Airlines Center before departing for the final press conference of their basketball season ...

"I want my legacy to be the impact that I can have on young kids and the people in the state of Iowa, and I hope I brought them a lot of joy this season," Clark said. I’ll remember how Iowa took Colorado’s best shot and survived to reach the Elite Eight. and then grabbing five rebounds in the game’s first few minutes against a massive front line, sending the message that Iowa wasn't going to back down. I’ll remember being courtside for one of the great individual performances in NCAA Tournament history. I’ll remember the first- and second-round Iowa City games in the NCAA Tournament selling out within an hour, clinching a Big Ten season record for average attendance. After recording maybe the most super-human season in women's basketball history – 1,055 points (fourth-most in Division I women’s history), 327 assists (fourth most in D-I history) and 140 3-pointers (third-most in D-I history) – her genuine humanity was pouring out. I’ll remember the final weekend in February, when Clark was running around celebrating the Iowa men’s 11-point comeback in the final minute of regulation to beat Michigan State. I’ll remember how long we waited for postgame media interviews because the team couldn’t stop celebrating with family, fans and each other on the Target Center court. I’ll remember talking on the phone to head coach Lisa Bluder the next day, her voice hoarse from a virus she had picked up. The kindness and love of Iowa’s associate head coach that have inspired thousands of people inspired me, too. And then seeing her the next afternoon at sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena be celebrated in the same spot after her incredible walk-off 3-pointer to defeat No. Coming to grips with defeat in the NCAA Tournament is something 67 men’s teams and 67 women’s teams must do every year.

Iowa Women's Basketball Season Celebration to be Held April 14 (University of Iowa Athletics)

Fans will have the opportunity to hear from P. Sue Beckwith, MD, head women's basketball coach Lisa Bluder and Hawkeye student-athletes, including National ...

(CT) at the Pentacrest on the University of Iowa campus. The Hawkeyes repeated as Big Ten Tournament champion and finished the 2022-23 season with a school-record 31 victories. Fans will have the opportunity to hear from P.

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Iowa-LSU sets viewership record for women's college basketball (Local 5 - weareiowa.com)

The Iowa Hawkeyes and LSU Tigers brought in nearly 10 million viewers on Sunday night. ESPN released the figures for its ABC broadcast on Monday.

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LSU-Iowa women's basketball championship game breaks record ... (WWLTV.com)

According to a tweet from ESPN PR, yesterday's national championship was the most viewed NCAA women's basketball game ever on record. With an average of 9.9 ...

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LSU tops Iowa in NCAA women's basketball national championship (Sports Business Journal)

Half the people who watched the NCAA women's national championship game were furious with the officials, while the other half was incensed an athlete had ...

Worth STAR-TELEGRAM, 4/2](https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article273883920.html#storylink=mainstage_lead)). USA TODAY’s Lindsay Schnell notes Clark’s “impact is not lessened” despite the loss as she has “become a household name after the last three weeks” ( [USA TODAY, 4/3](https://www.si.com/college/2023/04/03/iowa-ncaa-final-loss-caitlin-clark-lifted)). [Baton Rouge ADVOCATE, 4/2](https://www.nola.com/sports/lsu/womens_basketball/lsus-ncaa-championship-team-is-the-face-of-a-new-era/article_09fb8628-d1a9-11ed-9ad5-af251357ec69.html)). CHRONICLE, 4/2](https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annkillion/article/great-players-trash-talking-bad-refs-lsu-win-17874381.php)). LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey “built this team through the portal” ( [SEC]team.” Clark, who is “known to be a supreme trash talker as well, seemed to handle it just fine.” The trash talk is “just another part of the evolution of the women’s game” and fans are “loving what they’re seeing” ( [S.F. DISH AND TAKE: In S.F., Ann Killion writes the “embarrassing performance by the officials pointed out another inequity in the women’s game.” It has “become standard practice” to have a retired official as part of “virtually every big event broadcast crew, to provide some authority on controversial calls.” The men’s tournament has that, but ABC/ESPN “had nowhere to turn for insight into the officiating in this championship game.” For all the push about “trying to make the tournaments equitable,” the “broadcasting giant who has the rights to the women’s tournament opted not to include that perspective.” After the game there, was “yet another controversy” because LSU F Angel Reese “flashed her hand in front of her face, while looking right at” Iowa G Caitlin Clark. [SI, 4/3](https://www.si.com/college/2023/04/03/iowa-ncaa-final-loss-caitlin-clark-lifted)). [NCAA]women’s national championship between [LSU]and Iowa was the “surest sign yet that women’s basketball has arrived,” according to Nancy Armour of USA TODAY. Except that Clark had done the exact same thing to South Carolina players at the end of the semifinal Friday, without much outrage.” Reese, who is a “queen trash talker,” said that she was “waiting to return the favor that Clark had dished out to another Worth, Mac Engel writes as women “look for equality in both sports and throughout America, to reach that point when they are treated the same as their male counterparts,” Mulkey “can pretty much do, say (and wear) whatever she wants.” She “may be the only woman’s coach in America who enjoys such freedoms, or allowances.” Yesterday at the [American Airlines Center]in Dallas, there was LSU’s second-year coach “doing, saying, and wearing whatever she wanted. In D.C., Sally Jenkins notes if the 2023-2024 event is “anything close to as pleasurable and explosive as this one has been, it may be worth” $100M or “more in new TV rights fees” ( [WASHINGTON POST, 4/2](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/04/02/lsu-taunting-iowa-national-title/)).

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Angel Reese wasn't wrong: Iowa-LSU Women's Basketball ... (Off Tackle Empire)

Caitlin Clark paced the Iowa Hawkeyes, but it wasn't enough to beat Angel Reese, Alexis Morris, Jasmine Carson, and the antics of Kim Mulkey.

Nobody’s going to appoint you commissioner of celebrations, so either you’re against them or you’re for them and nobody gives a fuck about the distinctions you draw. Is there maybe a slight difference in the way they did the shit talking? Reese did it to Clark’s face after stalking her around the court. Anybody with an opinion make a call, now and forever: do you want the whole loaf or none? Clark did it toward her teammates walking to a huddle. “And the worst part is when the thugs in MLB pimp their home runs. But Monika Czinano was not her usual efficient self from the field (5/11), the Hawkeyes struggled on the interior glass, and lacked the bench depth to overcome foul trouble in a tightly-called game. I trust we could handle this in a deft enough way to avoid taking the same side as Dave Portnoy. Any claim otherwise is sour grapes for losing, at best, and outright racism is just flying all over the place from awful national figures. Talking Shit is generally fun and good for sports. Iowa bombed away, as Iowa is wont to do, with Caitlin Clark shooting a ridiculous 19 threes (making 8, a 42% clip) en route to 30 points—a game high—and 6 assists. Up ten with 1:40 to go in the first half, LSU reeled off seven straight points, capped off by an absurd Carson banked-in three to make it 59-42 at half.

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