SEATTLE– Caitlin Clark placed on a program with 41 factors, 12 helps and also 10 rebounds to aid No. 2 seed Iowa defeated fifth-seeded Louisville 97-83 on Sunday and also send out the Hawkeyes to their initial ladies’s Last 4 in thirty years.
The consentaneous first-team All-American was as leading as she’s been all period in obtaining the Hawkeyes to Dallas for the ladies’s NCAA Event nationwide semifinals on Friday evening. The Seattle 4 Area champ will certainly deal with the victor of the Greenville 1 area that has South Carolina playing Maryland on Monday evening.
Iowa (30-6) had not been to the Last 4 considering that Hall of Popularity instructor C. Vivian Stringer led the group to its only look in 1993. Prior to Sunday, the group had actually just been to another Elite 8– in 2019– considering that the Last 4 group.
Clark had the 11th triple-double of her occupation and also the 19th in NCAA Event background. She had the initial 30- and also 40-point triple-double in March Chaos background.
Tracking by 5 at the fifty percent, Louisville reduced its shortage to 48-47 prior to Clark and also the Hawkeyes racked up the following 11 factors as component of a 17-6 go to blow the video game open. That brought the majority of the pro-Iowa group of virtually 12,000 followers to their feet.
Louisville was down 22 with simply under 6 mins left prior to taking place a 13-1 go to obtain within 86-76 with 2:10 left. The Cardinals might obtain no better.
Clark left the video game with 22.7 secs left and also embraced instructor Lisa Bluder.
Hailey Van Lith racked up 27 factors and also Olivia Cochran had 20 factors and also 14 rebounds to lead Louisville (26-12).
