The path ahead to another National Championship game is a daunting one for Iowa, but Caitlin Clark and co. are ready for another shot at glory.
Lisa Bluder’s team reached its first ever National Championship final last spring, becoming the first Big Ten team to reach the title game since Rutgers in 2007, and knocked off the defending champion South Carolina Gamecocks to get there.
Obviously, with the transient natures of NCAA rosters, things are a little bit different, and teams can’t regroup like they can in the pro game where there isn’t the same kind of year-to-year squad turnover. But of the Hawkeyes’ 14-player roster from last season, 11 women returned for the current campaign. Iowa is back in March Madness as the top seed in the very challenging Regional 2 in Albany.
Clark became NCAA basketball’s all-time leading scorer, men’s or women’s, this season and appears poised to repeat as the winner of the host of player of the year awards she claimed in 2023. With the spotlight firmly focused on Clark for the duration of the season, the guard has embraced everything that comes with it and excelled.
Sophomore Hannah Stuelke dropped 47 on Penn State in February and the Cedar Rapids, IA native thrived with increased playing time and responsibility this season, averaging 14.6 points a night. Fifth-year senior guard Kate Martin also set career highs this season and became the first woman in program history to amass 900-plus points, 500-plus boards, 400-plus assists, 120-plus steals, and 60-plus blocks in a career. Gabbie Marshall, another fifth-year senior guard, is .
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