LSU’s Alexis Morris shoots previous Iowa’s Caitlin Clark in the course of the second half of the NCAA Women’s Final Four championship basketball sport Sunday in Dallas.

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LSU’s Alexis Morris shoots previous Iowa’s Caitlin Clark in the course of the second half of the NCAA Women’s Final Four championship basketball sport Sunday in Dallas.

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Louisiana State University’s Tigers bested University of Iowa’s Hawkeyes 102-85 to win their first nationwide basketball title at school historical past. Despite one more stellar efficiency from Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, the Hawkeyes’ late comeback run could not match LSU’s offensive stride.

It was simply certainly one of many information posted within the NCAA girls’s remaining sport. Here are some extra firsts from the most-viewed girls’s March Madness ever:

• A women’s team broke the 100-point mark for the primary time in a nationwide championship sport. The 102 factors the Tigers put up handed the earlier document of 97 factors that Texas scored in opposition to Southern California in 1986.
• LSU’s Kim Mulkey turned the first women’s coach to win nationwide titles at two totally different colleges. (And the primary to do it outfitted in a flashy, sequined tiger-striped pantsuit, no much less.)
• Iowa’s Clark set the NCAA document for most points in a tournament, 191, smashing the 177-point document set by Sheryl Swoopes in 1993. Also notable: During this yr’s Elite Eight spherical, Clark turned the primary participant — males’s or girls’s — to achieve a 40-point triple-double in an NCAA event sport.

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LSU head coach Kim Mulkey holds the profitable trophy after the NCAA Women’s Final Four championship basketball sport in opposition to Iowa on Sunday. As coach, Mulkey now has 4 nationwide titles to her identify.

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LSU head coach Kim Mulkey holds the profitable trophy after the NCAA Women’s Final Four championship basketball sport in opposition to Iowa on Sunday. As coach, Mulkey now has 4 nationwide titles to her identify.

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