For the third time in the last five NCAA Tournaments, Iowa’s women’s basketball team earned a trip to the Elite Eight. And all three times, the Hawkeyes faced a Kim Mulkey-coached team.
Top-seeded Iowa (32-4) extended its NCAA Tournament journey with an 89-68 win against No. 5 seed Colorado on Saturday in Albany, N.Y. The victory sets up a showdown with LSU in a rematch of last year’s NCAA championship game. The Tigers won a thriller 78-69 over No. 2 UCLA in the Sweet 16 Saturday.
Iowa led comfortably throughout the game, in part because of Caitlin Clark’s game management. Although Clark struggled at times from 3-point range, she ran Iowa’s offense to near perfection in the half-court and in transition. She finished with 29 points, 16 assists and six rebounds.
Run. It. Back.
Iowa and LSU will meet in the Elite Eight on Monday, April 1 in a rematch of the 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball Title game.
Call it now, who wins this time? pic.twitter.com/6tZwWUpzok
— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) March 30, 2024
The Hawkeyes entered the game as the nation’s leader in both scoring offense (92.0, by 5.9 points per game) and 3-pointers per game (11.1). That was a tough matchup for Colorado, which ranked 312th in 3-point defense. While the Hawkeyes were good from 3-point range, it…
