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A STUNNING finish capped off an unbelievable finish to Caitlin Clark<\/strong>‘s incredible night out for Iowa as the Hawkeyes stunned second seeds Indiana by a solitary point. Racking up more points than any other player in the match, as well as coming agonisingly close to a triple-double, it was fitting that Clark’s last basket – a long-range bomb – handed her sixth seeded college the NCAA Women’s win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a clash between two strong sides, Iowa hosted Indiana with a handy 22-6 record from the season, but even the Hawkeyes were underdogs against the 26-1 Hoosiers. In front of a passionate crowd at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, the home side found a way to knock off Indiana in a stunning upset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hawkeyes started strongly to race out to a five-point lead at the first break, but that soon evaporated courtesy of a 21-17 second term going the way of the second seeded visitors. Getting back on top, Iowa scored 21-19 to lead by three points heading into the last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After leading 83-81 with 49 second left after back-to-back free throws from Monika Czinano<\/strong>, Iowa watched as Clark fouled Chloe Moore-McNeil<\/strong> scored two of her own free throws to level the score. Iowa then took a 30-second timeout in the match, with Czinano buying time to try and go for the winner but critically missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With three seconds left on the clock, Indiana had the ball, and Mackenzie Holmes<\/strong> was immediately fouled by Czinano and sent to the line. The talented shooter made no mistake, extending the lead to two points, and all but ending the contest. Iowa needed a miracle, and that miracle came in the form of the deadly Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being the clear in-form shooter all night, Clark got into a position off the inbound pass with one second on the clock, to drain a three-pointer. Not only did the long-range beauty land, but the buzzer beater handed Iowa the most incredible of unlikely wins, 86-85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark would end her night with 34 points in 38 minutes, including four of 12 from long-range and 12 of 22 from the field. Incredibly, the backcourt star did not just impact the scoring, but also across the board with a massive nine rebounds and nine assists. She was well supported by Czinano (13 points, nine rebounds) and Kate Martin <\/strong>(19 points, four assists).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indiana shared the points around, with Holmes scoring a team-high 21 points, as well as six rebounds and two assists. Moore-McNeil (18 points, three rebounds and three assists) and Sydney Parrish <\/strong>(18 points, five rebounds and two assists) were next best, while Grace Berger<\/strong> chipped in with 16 points, eight assists and four rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A STUNNING finish capped off an unbelievable finish to Caitlin Clark‘s incredible night out for Iowa as the Hawkeyes stunned second seeds Indiana by a solitary point. Racking up more points than any other player in the match, as well as coming agonisingly close to a triple-double, it was fitting that Clark’s last basket – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2871],"tags":[5632,6511,6629,6627,6505,6626,6628],"class_list":["post-33900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-chloe-moore-mcneil","tag-grace-berger","tag-kate-martin","tag-mackenzie-holmes","tag-monika-czinano","tag-sydney-parrish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33904,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33900\/revisions\/33904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}