CLEVELAND − From the beginning of this incredible Iowa women’s basketball season, there has always been an intense curiosity about how the career of the greatest player to ever wear a Hawkeye uniform would end.
Would Caitlin Clark go to the WNBA or stay in school for one more year? Could she reach impossibly big expectations after taking Iowa to the NCAA national title game as a junior? How would her final moments, surely in front of one more raucous sellout crowd and a wildly entertained nation, wearing an Iowa jersey unfold?
Well, we have reached the end. And we have our final answer.
Clark ended her generational college career in the last moments of the last game of the 2023-24 women’s season. But for the second straight year, she and the Hawkeyes finished one spot shy of the ultimate prize.
South Carolina’s juggernaut roster and deep waves of talent overwhelmed the Hawkeyes, who even with one more 30-point performance from Clark didn’t have enough. The Gamecocks are your NCAA Tournament champions after posting Sunday’s 87-75 victory.
