IOWA CITY, Iowa — Caitlin Clark has been in the situation before. In games, in practice, at home, in her imagination.
But Sunday’s game-winning 3-pointer that ended an emotional day with a victory for Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes? That was the best yet.
“Those are the situations I would put myself in with my two brothers out in the driveway,” Clark said of the buzzer-beating shot that knocked off the No. 2 Indiana Hoosiers 86-85 at sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena. “That’s still what I do when I come into the gym and shoot by myself. Those are the situations you dream of. I’m lucky enough to be able to do it for this team, in front of 15,000 people who want to come and scream about it.
“I’ve hit a few buzzer-beaters, but nothing to that extreme with the circumstances what they were for us. That’s definitely No. 1.”
Clark finished with 34 points, nine assists and nine rebounds, close to what would have been her 10th triple-double as a Hawkeye.
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