Either Clark will finish her college career with a title or Dawn Staley's South Carolina squad will cap off the 10th unbeaten season in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history.
Either Clark will finish her college career with a title or Dawn Staley's South Carolina squad will cap off the 10th unbeaten season in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history.CLEVELAND — For all the reasons to be excited about the South Carolina-Iowa women’s national championship game, the idea that it’s a rematch perhaps shouldn’t be one of them.with Caitlin Clark as the hero. But both sides have major differences this time around — and it’s worth emphasizinglast year.
Raven Johnson is one of the few current Gamecocks who played in last year’s game, including an infamous moment of “I probably was stressing myself out watching it,” she said. “The last time I watched it was probably last year. I stopped watching it. I had to. They made me.”for her and her team. It wasn’t meant to be just about Iowa, but now that it is, she isn’t backing away from it.“I mean, yeah, Iowa was the team that I was looking forward to playing, and luckily it’s for the national championship,” Johnson said.
It so happens that South Carolina’s biggest strength — the size of its frontcourt — is an area that Iowa will have the hardest time stopping. The group is led by 6-foot-7 center“Kamilla’s been playing so well, just runs the floor beautifully, rebounds incredibly, shooting the ball well,” said Iowa coach Lisa Bluder. “One person can’t stop her, there’s no way. I don’t know if two or three can stop her, to be quite honest.
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