LSU star Angel Reese obtained the final snicker and let Iowa sharpshooter Caitlin Clark find out about it because the Tigers gained their first ladies’s basketball nationwide championship on Sunday, 102-85.
As LSU put Iowa away within the fourth quarter, Reese pointed to her finger, signifying that it was her flip to get that championship ring and hit Clark with the John Cena “you’ll be able to’t see me” taunt. Clark had made the taunt in Iowa’s Elite Eight win when she had a 40-point triple-double.
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Angel Reese #10 of the LSU Woman Tigers celebrates with a teammate after defeating the Iowa Hawkeyes 102-85 through the 2023 NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Match championship recreation at American Airways Heart on April 02, 2023 in Dallas, Texas. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Photographs)
Clark had been extraordinarily cocky during the last two video games as she gained momentum within the event. She had 30 factors in Sunday’s loss.
Basketball followers debated one another over Reese’s actions and introduced up Clark’s antics previously, which earned the reward of Cena.
Reese was named the Most Excellent Participant of the NCAA Match. With 15 factors and 10 rebounds, she set an NCAA Division 1 report for many double-doubles in a single season with 34.
The third-year ahead joined LSU earlier than the beginning of the 2022-2023 season after she began her collegiate profession at Maryland. With the Terrapins, she was averaging 15.3 factors and 9.1 rebounds per recreation. She took her recreation to a different stage when she joined LSU.
Angel Reese #10 of the LSU Woman Tigers reacts in the direction of Caitlin Clark #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes through the fourth quarter through the 2023 NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Match championship recreation at American Airways Heart on April 02, 2023 in Dallas, Texas. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Photographs)
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Reese performed and began every of the Tigers’ video games this season. Going into the nationwide championship, she was averaging 23.3 factors and 15. 6 rebounds per recreation.
Reese’s play within the event guided the Tigers to this system’s first nationwide championship recreation and finally the primary nationwide title.
LSU’s Angel Reese reacts in entrance of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark through the second half of the NCAA Ladies’s Remaining 4 championship basketball recreation Sunday, April 2, 2023, in Dallas. (AP Photograph/Tony Gutierrez)
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Earlier than Sunday, LSU had been to 5 consecutive Remaining Fours from 2004 to 2008 however might by no means get to the subsequent stage. That every one modified with the win over Iowa.
