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djtee said:
Plus SC is very good at switching and fighting over screens, and there is no way Dawn is let Marshall and others rain down 3`s. And to note remember SC is a much different team than Louisville. 6-2 6-3 Czinano was able to have her way with louisville post players that will not happen at all against SC. Then the question is how do Iowa defend SC ?
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Czinano was largely a non factor. 6’3 Olivia Cochran dominated that matchup. And she’s JV compared to what SC will bring to the post.
 
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Amb3096 said:
Transition game will be dependent on getting defensive rebounds or forcing turnovers. The first will be tough because of how well SC rebounds their own misses. Iowa will need to find a way to get SC to cough the ball up to get their running game going. I do have to credit SC's bigs for how well they run the floor, though. I think that they have the kind of speed/size that can limit Iowa's fast-break points much more than Louisville was able to last night.
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Cardoso for 6-7 post is very agile and mobile to run down the UCLA player and get the block was very impressive
 
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VolBall09 said:
Man idk. She’s another level player. Everyone who has underestimated her in her career has ended up looking the fool. She can flat play basketball.

She’s the best skills player and shooter I have ever seen in the women’s game. Ever. No comparison with Sue Bird or even Ionescu. She’s light years ahead of both.
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I actually hope that is the finals that would only enhance the women’s game and the ratings would go through the roof and no doubt beat the men’s finals by at least 2 to 1 in viewership
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Useless Trivia :

The last time that Iowa won an Elite 8 game was on their home floor against Tennessee in 1993. Even though Tennessee was the #1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament that year, we still had to play a regional final on an opponent's home court. Iowa got every call imaginable in that game, including a charge against Tiffany Woosley, which would lead to a rare Pat Summitt technical foul call.
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It's interesting you bring up that 1993 postseason. M. Voepel had an interesting point about Sheryl Swoopes' run to the title that year, culminating with a 47 point game in a championship game win over Katie Smith's Ohio State, how one player basically carried the team to a title with the most dominant individual performance in women's tournament history and we haven't seen anything like it since... until now, 30 years later with Caitlin Clark.
 
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She's the current best in college. In recent years, I believe Ionescu and Stewart would be strong contenders. You don't win multiple titles and MVP's without being elite among the elite.

I really enjoy watching Clark play and argued that she was better than Bueckers when they were freshmen, but being the centerpiece of championships is a strong argument. It's what has kept Maravich out of serious GOAT consideration despite the fact that he could do things with the ball not seen before or since. A scoring machine and most entertaining player ever.
 
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Darth_Vol said:
It's interesting you bring up that 1993 postseason. M. Voepel had an interesting point about Sheryl Swoopes' run to the title that year, culminating with a 47 point game in a championship game win over Katie Smith's Ohio State, how one player basically carried the team to a title with the most dominant individual performance in women's tournament history and we haven't seen anything like it since... until now, 30 years later with Caitlin Clark.
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I would contend that Chamique Holdsclaw carried the 1997 Lady Vols to the National Championship as well .. although, it may not have come with as much of an explosion of points. She single-handedly beat UConn in the Elite 8 (which was also played in Iowa). UConn had no answer for her.
 
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creekdipper said:
She's the current best in college. In recent years, I believe Ionescu and Stewart would be strong contenders. You don't win multiple titles and MVP's without being elite among the elite.

I really enjoy watching Clark play and argued that she was better than Bueckers when they were freshmen, but being the centerpiece of championships is a strong argument. It's what has kept Maravich out of serious GOAT consideration despite the fact that he could do things with the ball not seen before or since. A scoring machine and most entertaining player ever.
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Clark is a more complete player than Bueckers.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I would contend that Chamique Holdsclaw carried the 1997 Lady Vols to the National Championship as well .. although, it may not have come with as much of an explosion of points. She single-handedly beat UConn in the Elite 8 (which was also played in Iowa). UConn had no answer for her.
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I disagree, Tennessee scored 91 points against UConn, only 21 of those came from Chamique. Kellie was awesome in that game, scoring 19, and it was a great team win.

There are lots of great individual performances from title teams we could point to - Chamique, Parker, Taurasi, Stewart, etc., but no player has ever single-handedly carried her team to a title like Swoopes IMO...
 
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Darth_Vol said:
I disagree, Tennessee scored 91 points against UConn, only 21 of those came from Chamique. Kellie was awesome in that game, scoring 19, and it was a great team win.

There are lots of great individual performances from title teams we could point to - Chamique, Parker, Taurasi, Stewart, etc., but no player has ever single-handedly carried her team to a title like Swoopes IMO...
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Tiffani Johnson also played well but .... we will just have to agree to disagree. Holdsclaw carried that '97 team.
 
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VolBall09 said:
Man idk. She’s another level player. Everyone who has underestimated her in her career has ended up looking the fool. She can flat play basketball.

She’s the best skills player and shooter I have ever seen in the women’s game. Ever. No comparison with Sue Bird or even Ionescu. She’s light years ahead of both.
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Taurasi that played for UConn came to mind. She could flat out shoot with a quick trigger.
 
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Darth_Vol said:
And Pashen Thompson, and Abby Conklin. And hell, I remember even Misty Greene hit a couple of big shots. Like I said, TEAM win...
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I wasn't just referring to that one game ... Holdsclaw had that team on her back.

Misty Greene? Seriously? Why not mention Laurie Milligan? I mean, she did in bound the ball in the last second of the win over Old Dominion. So what if we had an 8 point lead at the time? That was a helluva an in-bounds pass! LOL.
 
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Miller and Sellers both on the bench with 2 fouls is a blessing offensively. The ball is moving better without them. Miller was pressing and turning it over.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I would contend that Chamique Holdsclaw carried the 1997 Lady Vols to the National Championship as well .. although, it may not have come with as much of an explosion of points. She single-handedly beat UConn in the Elite 8 (which was also played in Iowa). UConn had no answer for her.
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Kellie dropped 19 on them in that game too
 
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Iowa is a one-dimensional team, while South Carolina is a two-dimensional one: against opponents with great talent and depth, Iowa was a sieve defensively to allowing a ton of points scored. They had to out-score those opponents, and often they failed - 84 pts to Kansas St., 86 to CT, 94 to NC St., 90 to Illinois, 87 to Indiana, 96 to Maryland. South Carolina has as elite a defense as Iowa's offense is, but the Gamecocks also has a nationally top-10 scoring offense, while Iowa's scoring defense is ranked 307th. The rebounding will hamper Iowa's ability to out-score South Carolina. It's the top-ranked scoring offense against the top-ranked scoring defense, but it may be the other sides of those coins that decide the game ultimately......
 
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