Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes shoots the ball over Angel Reese of the LSU Tigers throughout the first half within the Elite 8 spherical of the NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Match at MVP Area on April 1, 2024 in Albany, New York.
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Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes shoots the ball over Angel Reese of the LSU Tigers throughout the first half within the Elite 8 spherical of the NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Match at MVP Area on April 1, 2024 in Albany, New York.
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The Last 4 is ready for the street to the ladies’s nationwide school basketball championship.
This Friday, Iowa will face off in opposition to the College of Connecticut, whereas North Carolina State will battle South Carolina.
Caitlin Clark, who in March broke the all-time NCAA Division 1 basketball scoring document, led the Iowa Hawkeyes to victory Monday evening, scoring 41 of the workforce’s 94 factors of their rematch in opposition to LSU, which scored 87 factors and misplaced to the workforce they defeated in final yr’s nationwide championship.
Additionally on Monday, UConn additionally defeated the College of Southern California 80-73. On Sunday, the South Carolina Gamecocks beat the Oregon State Beavers 70-58, and the NC State Wolfpack beat the Texas Longhorns 76-66.
The Last 4 video games will probably be broadcast back-to-back starting at 7 p.m. ET Friday on ESPN. The championship sport will broadcast stay from Cleveland Sunday at 3 p.m. ET on ABC.
This yr’s ladies’s event has skilled document TV rankings as recognition within the ladies’s sport has made its gamers family names — word Iowa’s Clark, LSU’s Angel Reese, USC’s JuJu Watkins and UConn’s Paige Bueckers.
The NCAA obtained it proper, as a result of tonight’s ladies’s event matchups are among the finest in historical past! There’s star energy on all 4 groups, nice teaching, and all have excellent storylines on how they made it to the Elite Eight! As a basketball fan and a fan of ladies’s sports activities,…
— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) April 1, 2024
Each UConn and NC State are celebrating Last 4 appearances by each its ladies’s and males’s groups. The lads’s Last 4 video games will happen this Saturday, when Purdue faces off in opposition to North Carolina State, and UConn faces Alabama. The lads’s title sport will happen Monday, April 8.