DALLAS, TEXAS – Iowa will face undefeated #1-ranked South Carolina Friday in a Final Four game with a trip to the National Championship game at stake.
Tip off for Friday’s game in the Semifinals of the NCAA Tournament is set for approximately 8:30 p.m. (CT) inside the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. The contest will broadcast coast-to-coast on ESPN.
Iowa set a program record for most wins in a single season over Louisville to advance to its second Final Four in school history.
Iowa won its third Big Ten Tournament title since 2019, over Ohio State which was the largest marging of victory in BTT
Championship history.
Caitlin Clark was named the Big Ten Player of the Year for the second consective season.
Monika Czinano and Clark were unanimous All-Big Ten selections.
Lisa Bluder was named to Naismith Semifinalists Lists. (Coach of the Year)
Since 2008, Bluder’s teams own a 230-42 record inside of Carver-Hawkeye Arena. In that stretch, the Hawkeyes have posted three undefeated seasons at home. Over the last eight years, Iowa has dropped the second-fewest regular season home games in the Big Ten.
Iowa welcomes four new players to the 2022-23 roster: Molly Davis, Jada Gyamfi, Taylor McCabe, and Hannah Stuelke. Gyamfi, McCabe, and Stuelke are all true freshmen, hailing from Johnston, Cedar Rapids and Fremont, Nebraska, respectively. Davis is a fourth-year transfer from Central Michigan.
Clark was named The Athletic National Player of the Year and a unanimous AP First Team All-American.
Czinano was tabbed as a Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Semifinalist.
Iowa set a program record against Evansville scoring 115 points earlier this season.
Iowa has had five out of the last six Big Ten Players of the Year.
The Hawkeyes have a nation’s best five wins against AP Top 10 opponents.
Clark was the Big Ten Tournament MVP for the second straight season which has only happened three times in conference history.
For the first time in the Lisa Bluder era, the Hawkeyes won 15 Big Ten regular season conference games.
This is Iowa’s 29th trip in school history to the Big Dance.
Over the last seven postseason games, Gabbie Marshall is shooting 50% from 3-point range. (23-46)
Bluder owns a 493-248 (.664) record and a 247-141 (.637) conference mark at Iowa. In her 38 seasons as a head coach, Bluder is 849-389 (.685).
SCOUTING SOUTH CAROLINA
• The Gamecocks won the SEC regular season title and the SEC Tournament.
• USC has an average win margin of +29.5 ppg.
• South Carolina’s path to the Final Four: Norfolk St., S. Florida, UCLA, and Maryland.
• Zia Cooke leads South Carolina’s offense with 15.1 ppg.
• Aliyah Boston nearly averages a double-double with 13.2 ppg and 9.8 rpg.
• USC is giving up 51.1 ppg on the defensive side of the floor.
