Total domination! The LSU Lady Tigers are National Champions. The feat is the first NCAA basketball Championship win for the program ever. The Tigers’ first team all-American Angel Reese was a huge difference maker with 15 points and 10 rebounds as she set an NCAA single-season record with 34 double-doubles. Angel Reese was named the Final Four MVP.
The win was an collaborative effort with all five starters recording a double figure effort. Jasmine Carson contributed 21 first-half points, and ended with 22 total.
Iowa, and their star player Caitlin Clark began the game red hot; however, she fizzled out in the second-half, and ended the game with 30 points. Far below her last three game average of 38.9. Clark struggled in the second half with a record high six turnovers and found herself in constant foul trouble.
The Iowa Hawkeyes gave a valant fight in the second half with a 15-2 run; however with both Clark and Monika Czinano in foul trouble, the offense fire power ran out. The Tigers’ 102 points was the most scored ever in a women’s basketball national championship game.
Coach Kim Mulkey, now 60-years is now one of only three coaches with four national championships, which include Geno Auriemma and Pat Smith.
Way to go Lady LSU Tigers!
You are the 2023 Women’s NCAA National Champions
