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Iowa @ #10 Indiana - 3/03/21

Who will win this game?

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79-72 IU. Clark just called for her 4th foul.
 
Clark just fouled out, trying to get a rebound.
 
Oh wow, Clark out with five fouls. 79-75 IU. She finishes with 32.

IU has three with 20+: Berger, Patberg and Holmes.
 
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eebmg said:
Not watching Was it a real foul or was she hosed?
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Real foul. She got her arm hooked in with Gulbe fighting for a rebound. The 4th was questionable: Cardano-Hillary made a mild push off look like a takedown.
 
Indiana is going to hold on. Clark sure is a joy to watch though, some of the 3s she hit were just ridiculous. Heck of a passer too. Her/Czinano reminds me of Sabrina/Ruthy with their pick and roll. Problem is that Iowa can't defend a chair.
 
89-80.

Iowa: Clark 32, Czinano 20.
Indiana: Berger, Holmes, Patberg all with 22. Holmes hits the daily double with 11 rebounds.
She's got some sweet posts moves and a baby hook. She shot 11 for 13 from the floor.
 
89-80 IND final


Holmes 22 pts (11-13, 0-1 FT), 11 reb (4 off), 1 ast, 3 TO, 2 blk in 35 min

Clark 32 pts (11-18, 5-7 3P, 5-6 FT), 2 reb, 5 ast, 3 TO, 1 stl in 33 min

Tenth 30+ pt game of the year for Clark? :confused:
 
It seemed from the boxscore that before her fouls, she had a perfect 4Q
 
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Can someone shed the light as to why Catlin Clark [#22] has a name Keough on back of jersey? Asking for a friend.
 
mbr33ct said:
Can someone shed the light as to why Catlin Clark [#22] has a name Keough on back of jersey? Asking for a friend.
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All the players chose a person they wanted to rep in the fight against cancer. Not sure who Keough is to Clark though
 
mbr33ct said:
Can someone shed the light as to why Catlin Clark [#22] has a name Keough on back of jersey? Asking for a friend.
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The game unis were in pink, for Indiana's Breast Cancer Awareness Game. I would make a guess that Iowa's unis were references to people the team knew who had/have breast cancer or some other form of cancer.
 
Iowa a player or two short all year. Usually close but can't finish against the top B10 teams. Nice season for Indiana. Their Big 3 all had 22 today.
 
JordyG said:
Clarke is just a matchup problem all over the floor with her size, her shooting ability and her handle. You have to play her tight on the perimeter and make her drive. The problem there is her court vision is so good. Unlike Paige she hasn't shown tired legs syndrome as the season has gone on.
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You would need to be more active on defense than Clark is to get "tired legs syndrome".
 
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Clark drove more today than I have ever seen her drive. She is hard to guard.
 
JordyG said:
Clarke is just a matchup problem all over the floor with her size, her shooting ability and her handle. You have to play her tight on the perimeter and make her drive. The problem there is her court vision is so good. Unlike Paige she hasn't shown tired legs syndrome as the season has gone on.
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UConn had to squeeze in more games this semester due to covid breaks, so they’ve had a lot of three games in five days stretches, and five in 10 days. I think UConn has had only one day off between games nine different times and Iowa never had any like that until a three in five days stretch last week (the final game being Michigan two days after getting whomped by Maryland, which was their best game of the year - one for the “go figure” department).

What I thought was weird in this latest one is that on Thursday at Creighton, Geno gave Paige a couple minutes rest at the end of the third and then had her face guard Carda all over the floor in the fourth. UConn was up big, so he basically had her run around like crazy for nothing on the first game of a 3 in 5 days stretch. There could be a number of reasons for it - Geno might have been sending her or the team a message about defensive commitment. Or curiosity in seeing how she could handle it. Or maybe he was trying to build her conditioning for the postseason - trying to get her to fight through tired legs now so it won’t feel foreign in the BE Championship game or the Elite Eight. That would be a little odd, she already sort of did that once with a strong game against Seton Hall two days after the 45 minutes against SC. But it’s been a strange year without normal strength and conditioning routines and normal cycles between games, and the staff maybe thought it would be to helpful use live game action in place of wind sprints.

I could be overthinking it, though. More likely, it’s something simple like she talked back and Geno punished her by saying “oh, so you want to go back in? Fine. But now you have to go chase that kid around.”
 
STLCardinal said:
You would need to be more active on defense than Clark is to get "tired legs syndrome".
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Still Clarke plays large minutes, is pressed from inbounds while bringing the ball up, is pressed on the perimeter, and is constantly face guarded. All on an above average team where the pressure to be the high scorer every game just for her team to be competitive can be crushing for some. I know Paige is our golden girl, but give Clarke credit, her conditioning is very good indeed.
 
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JordyG said:
Still Clarke plays large minutes, is pressed from inbounds while bringing the ball up, is pressed on the perimeter, and is constantly face guarded. All on an above average team where the pressure to be the high scorer every game just for her team to be competitive can be crushing for some. I know Paige is our golden girl, but give Clarke credit, her conditioning is very good indeed.
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Yeah - that’s fair. Felt the same about Paige’s conditioning when she looked gassed with 5 minutes to go in regulation against SC and she responded with a perfect final 10 minutes, but perhaps it’s caught up to her. I’d like to think a combination of things led to her tailing off a bit the last two weeks - the regular season title being clinched, the games not being too close, feeling a bit worn down and losing focus with not a lot at stake. But we’ll see if she looks recharged this weekend. I’d feel a little better going into the postseason if she was playing like Clark is right now.
 
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JordyG said:
Still Clarke plays large minutes, is pressed from inbounds while bringing the ball up, is pressed on the perimeter, and is constantly face guarded. All on an above average team where the pressure to be the high scorer every game just for her team to be competitive can be crushing for some. I know Paige is our golden girl, but give Clarke credit, her conditioning is very good indeed.
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All fair points, but I do think she takes a break on defense. I also think that's by design. Different approaches by different coaches. She and Bueckers are both really, really good. But in my mind they are different types of players, both scorers but different types. I also think Bueckers moves more in the course of the offense, but that's required in UConn's system. I don't like individual awards, but they are given out. And when one for Player of the Year is awarded, every phase of the game should be considered. I know that's not the point you were making, it's just my two cents towards all the writings about who should win Freshman Player of the Year.
 
donalddoowop said:
Clark drove more today than I have ever seen her drive. She is hard to guard.
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Left- and right-handed hard lay-ups, along with a finger roll extension. And then the pull-up lean in, sometimes with a regular jumper and sometimes a one-handed push. It's like checking off a catalogue of possible shots.
And then there's the jumpers. :rolleyes:

If and when Paige and Clark are in the same lineup in the future, watch out world.
 
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