Caitlin Clark fell two rebounds wanting a triple-double. That was the one manner she and the Hawkeyes fell quick in a blowout win over Holy Cross.
Clark, the all-time Division 1 scoring chief, put up 27 factors, some coming from extraordinarily lengthy vary as top-seeded Iowa received its opening spherical recreation, 91-65.
She confirmed off the complete complement of her recreation, discovering teammates for ten assists. These weren’t low-cost assists, both. Clark acquired teammates 5 wide-open three-pointers, and the opposite 5 assists led to layups. Groups need to deal with Clark, and he or she’s very happy to crash the boards, minimize and dish to share the scoring wealth.
The one factor Clark did unsuitable was complain to the officers an excessive amount of. A minimum of that’s what her father thought, as ABC’s cameras caught him telling her to “Shut up” from the sidelines.
However in a yr the place attendance for ladies’s basketball is setting data — greater than 109,000 attended the Huge Ten ladies’s basketball event — Clark’s earned some leeway. In spite of everything, that’s the signal of a real basketball famous person: Yelling on the refs.
