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4 absurd Caitlin Clark shots that helped Iowa beat South Carolina in the Final Four

Caitlin Clark had an absolutely incredible game as Iowa upset undefeated South Carolina on Friday.

Iowa women’s basketball powerhouse Caitlin Clark and her team pulled off the unthinkable on Friday night.

The team topped undefeated South Carolina in the 2023 women’s NCAA tournament Final Four, 77-73, to advance to Sunday’s finale.

Clark scored an incredible 41 points in the contest, underscoring why she was named AP’s National Player of the Year this week.

As Iowa celebrates taking down one of the best women’s college basketball teams of the last decade, they’ll have to look back on the astounding game that Clark had to help them get to the national championship game.

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She really had one of the tournament’s best-ever performances on Friday night.

As the game’s broadcast put it, “the mythical mastery of Caitlin Clark” will continue as the team faces LSU in Sunday’s 2023 women’s NCAA tournament championship game.

With this game in the books, let’s all look back on four absolutely absurd shots that Clark banked during Friday night’s true stunner of an upset.

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Caitlin Clark literally waved off a South Carolina player and left her unguarded during the Final Four

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark quite literally waved off a South Carolina player during the Final Four.

Iowa women’s basketball superstar Caitlin Clark notched yet another moment of absolutely hilarious disrespect during her team’s Final Four bout with undefeated South Carolina on Friday night.

As the Hawkeyes squared off with the Gamecocks, Clark decided to quite literally wave off freshman guard Raven Johnson and leave her unguarded during a South Carolina offensive possession.

The move worked, as Johnson didn’t attempt the 3-pointer as she stood open beyond the arc and decided to pass the ball off to a teammate.

Clark’s move was so cold that she didn’t even look Johnson’s way as she waved off the freshman standout.

Like, that is just absolutely brutal trolling from Clark in the midst of what is the biggest college game of her career thus far.

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To add insult to injury, Clark also got a bucket over Johnson during the Final Four contest.

Clark is the AP National Player of the Year for a reason. She’s also one of the most savage basketball players on the planet.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN.

6 awesome facts about Caitlin Clark ahead of Iowa’s Final Four meeting with South Carolina

Get to know the Naismith Player of the Year a little better.

Iowa’s Sweet 16 game against Louisville drew 2.5 million viewers on Sunday, more than any NBA game on ESPN this season.

A big part of that draw was the incredible Caitlin Clark, the Naismith Player of the Year and two-time Big Ten Player of the Year who absolutely didn’t disappoint with a 41-point triple-double to push Iowa to the Final Four.

With a meeting against the reigning national champion South Carolina awaiting the Hawkeyes Friday, that viewership could soar even higher, meaning more people will be introduced to Clark for the first time.

For those looking to learn more about the Iowa star before the big game, here are a few fun facts about Clark in her basketball journey.

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Women’s Final Four ticket prices over 3X as much as Men’s Final Four

Why mention ticket prices at the #FinalFour and #WFinalFour? Women’s #MarchMadness can grow revenue for the #Pac12

File this next item under “stories you probably didn’t expect to see, but carry considerable significance for the Pac-12 and other stakeholders in college sports.”

Sportico and other outlets noticed that on Tuesday morning (March 28), the get-in ticket prices for the Women’s Final Four in Dallas this Friday considerably eclipsed the get-in prices for the Men’s Final Four in Houston on Saturday.

By how much did Women’s Final Four ticket prices exceed the men at Ticketmaster? Over three times as much.

The Men’s Final Four has rarely been this affordable and accessible for a middle-class consumer. If you’re a Houstonian or a Texan or a Louisiana or Arkansas resident, you could drive to Houston and watch a pair of national semifinals for at or near $100, one of the more improbable but considerable sports bargains for a high-end event.

With Florida Atlantic, San Diego State, and Miami joining blue-blood UConn at the Final Four, the heavyweight presence at the event is minimal. Large national fan bases are in short supply. Moreover, because the event is now regularly held in domes with seating configurations which can accommodate near 70,000 people, those upper-deck seats are going to come very cheaply.

Meanwhile, the Women’s Final Four clearly has the biggest blockbuster game of any of the four national semifinals, men or women, this weekend: Iowa and superstar Caitlin Clark against unbeaten defending national champion South Carolina.

This is why the Women’s Final Four get-in price was over $300 at Ticketmaster on Tuesday morning:

Why does this matter? Why bother to mention it? It’s simple: As we have noted (with help from Jon Wilner of the Wilner Hotline) over the past two years, the Women’s NCAA Tournament is currently bundled with other NCAA sports championships. It is not a standalone media rights property. If it could be un-tethered from those other non-revenue sports, and if a “win unit” structre akin to what exists for the men’s tournament was created, women’s basketball could generate extra millions of dollars for sports programs in the Pac-12 and other conferences.

Sure, the money wouldn’t be nearly as huge as what the men take in, but more millions of dollars is a whole lot better than zero dollars. It’s long past time for the women’s tournament to become a significant revenue vehicle for college sports programs big and small.

George Kliavkoff and Pac-12 presidents and chancellors can certainly use the money.

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South Carolina has history on its side to win the 2023 women’s NCAA tournament

South Carolina has history on its side in the 2023 women’s NCAA tournament.

The South Carolina women’s basketball team has history on its side as it prepares to defend its title.

The top-ranked team’s 86-75 victory over No. 2 Maryland on Monday will set it up for a marquee matchup with No. 2 Iowa in the 2023 women’s NCAA tournament’s Final Four.

At 36-0, South Carolina has proven to be unstoppable this season. Perfection can work in your favor in the women’s NCAA tournament, as nine of the previous 13 teams to go undefeated and reach the Final Four have won the entire bracket, per ESPN.

You never know what happens in the tournament’s last weekend, but South Carolina has all the momentum it needs to win another championship.

South Carolina hasn’t lost a game since March 6, 2022, to Kentucky in the SEC Championship. Since then, the team won the 2022 women’s NCAA tournament and hasn’t looked back.

This is the team’s third-straight Final Four appearance since 2021, and head coach Dawn Staley is poised to lead her team to another national title. At least that’s what history is telling us.

UCLA loses to South Carolina, Pac-12 fully eliminated from NCAA Tournament

The UCLA women were the last Pac-12 team in the NCAA Tournament. Now they’re gone, courtesy of the defending champions.

Unlike men’s basketball, the Pac-12 put a lot of teams in the Women’s NCAA Tournament. The Pac-12 actually put a majority of its 12 teams (seven) in the women’s NCAA field. Yet, none of them reached the Final Four or even the Elite Eight.

UCLA was the last Pac-12 team standing, but the Bruins ran into No. 1 and undefeated South Carolina on Saturday afternoon in Greenville, S.C. Playing an unbeaten juggernaut is a tough-enough assignment as it is. The Bruins had to go into the state of South Carolina, making the task even tougher.

It ended as everyone expected it would.

South Carolina smothered UCLA’s offense, limiting the Bruins to 34 points in the game’s first 36 minutes before the Bruins got a few very late and inconsequential 3-pointers to make the score seem slightly closer than it was. The final was 59-43 for South Carolina, but it felt a lot more like a 25-point game than 16.

UCLA scored just 15 points in the first half against the Gamecocks’ elite defense and could never get into a real rhythm for more than a few minutes at a time. The Bruins had a good NCAA Tournament by becoming one of three Pac-12 teams to make the Sweet 16, but they had a bad draw in this round and realized why their losses late in the season — which caused them to fall on the seed list — were so important. Fewer losses would have meant a No. 3 seed for the Bruins, who might still be playing had they not met the defending national champions this early in the tournament.

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Alabama MBB narrowly defeats South Carolina 78-76 in OT

Alabama men’s basketball wins a close one on the road against South Carolina.

Alabama men’s basketball earned a win on the road against an unranked South Carolina Gamecocks squad with a final score of 78-76. With this win, the Crimson Tide improves to 24-4 overall with a conference record of 14-1, just one game ahead of the Texas A&M Aggies.

Star freshman Brandon Miller led the team with a strong performance, as finished the contest with a career-high 41 points in 43 minutes. Charles Bediako led the team in rebounds with nine.

The final three games for this Crimson Tide team make for a difficult stretch. Alabama welcomes in Arkansas on Saturday, Feb. 25, and then will face Auburn and Texas A&M next week to close out the season.

Roll Tide wire will continue to follow Alabama basketball as the 2022-2023 regular season winds down.

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How to watch Alabama-South Carolina basketball game

How to watch No. 2 Alabama take on South Carolina on Wednesday night!

No. 2 Alabama (23-4,  13-1 SEC) will travel to Columbia Wednesday night to take on South Carolina (10-17, 3-11 SEC) inside Colonial Life Arena.

This is the lone matchup of the regular season for the Crimson Tide and the Gamecocks.

Alabama took care of South Carolina in last season’s matchup 90-71 and currently owns a seven-game winning streak against the Gamecocks.

With Texas A&M nipping at their heels, Alabama must take care of South Carolina on Wednesday if they want to hold on to their lead in the SEC standings.

Below is the game day and broadcast information for the SEC matchup between Alabama and South Carolina.

No. 1 South Carolina versus No. 2 Stanford is the main course of college basketball’s Feast Week

Previewing Sunday’s college basketball matchup between Stanford and South Carolina.

Do you enjoy watching basketball played at its absolute peak? If so, Sunday’s women’s college basketball game between No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks and No. 2 Stanford Cardinal should do more than settle your basketball appetite.

The clash of the NCAA’s best will check off many boxes that include the future stars of the WNBA, some of the top recruits from recent high school classes and better yet, a showdown between two teams that recently reached college basketball’s mountaintop.

We dive into it all ahead of Sunday’s potential national championship preview. Here’s what to watch for, a brief history of the two and how to watch.

UNC women’s basketball will host South Carolina in a secret scrimmage

The North Carolina women’s basketball program will host South Carolina in a secret scrimmage game.

The North Carolina woman’s basketball program will host a private scrimmage against the 2021-2022 national champions South Carolina, according to States News and Observer. This closed scrimmage style format is also being done by the Men’s basketball team, hosting one against Rutgers.

The secret scrimmage is set to be played on October 22nd, closed to the public as both teams prepare for the upcoming season.

The two teams faced in NCAAW’s sweet sixteen, with North Carolina coming up short 69-61.The two teams stayed nearly even in all the quarters except for the second, with South Carolina outscoring UNC 17 to 8. The Tar Heels had an impressive performance by Deja Kelly, who finished with 23 points, five rebounds, and three assists in the game.

Last season North Carolina finished with a 25-7 record, defending Carmichael arena with a home record of 13-1.

The UNC women’s basketball team will open their season on November 9th as they host Jackson State.

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