ALBANY, N.Y. — It’s felt like Iowa and LSU have been on a collision course for a full year now, ever since the teams clashed in the national championship and one very famous basketball player taunted another very famous basketball player at the end.
So, on Selection Sunday, when the selection committee unveiled the women’s NCAA Tournament bracket, and we saw that these two teams could meet again — this time in the Elite Eight — we all immediately circled it. Many of us filled out our brackets in hopes that our picks could help it come to fruition, despite how difficult both teams’ paths would be to get here.
And then we got it. We got the dream matchup with a Final Four berth on the line. A heavyweight fight, a rematch, another legacy-making moment. Reporters debated whether it could break the mammoth women’s basketball TV viewership record that the last meeting in Dallas had set. Those of us here in Albany twiddled our thumbs and impatiently counted down the minutes to tipoff, hoping against all odds that a game with so much hype could actually live up to it.
And then it did.
With a 94-87 victory fueled by 41 points from Caitlin Clark, the Hawkeyes are back in the Final Four.
IOWA IS HEADED TO THE FINAL FOUR.
The No. 1 Hawkeyes take down No. 3 LSU 94-87 to reach…
