DALLAS — Iowa Hawkeyes coach Lisa Bluder found the officials’ approach “frustrating” in Sunday’s 2023 women’s NCAA title game, in which her team fell 102-85 to the LSU Tigers at the American Airlines Center.
“I can’t comment on the officials,” Bluder said postgame. “It’s very frustrating because I feel like I can’t talk to them. They won’t even listen. That’s what’s frustrating, is there wasn’t even a conversation that could be had. When your two seniors have to sit on the bench — they don’t know they’re seniors, I get it — but those two women didn’t deserve it. I don’t know. It’s too bad. Yeah, it’s too bad.”
There were 37 fouls called in all by game’s end, with Hawkeyes fifth-year senior Monika Czinano and senior McKenna Warnock fouling out in the fourth quarter at the 6:25 and 1:33 marks, respectively. That isn’t as many fouls as Friday’s national semifinal game between South Carolina-Iowa (38); and UConn in last year’s national championship game had 21 fouls, more than either team on…
