Showing posts with label Iowa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iowa. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 March 2026
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Thursday, 4 April 2024
CAITLIN CLARK WINS SECOND CONSECUTIVE NAISMITH AWARD
Caitlin Clark, who broke the NCAA Division I women's single-season and career scoring records this campaign, won the Naismith National Player of the Year Award for the second consecutive year.
The Iowa senior was honored in a ceremony held Wednesday in Cleveland, where the Hawkeyes will play in the Final Four on Friday.
The other nominees were USC freshman JuJu Watkins, UConn's Paige Bueckers and Stanford's Cameron Brink.
"I think it's been a special year for women's basketball, and also to win this award is really special," Clark said. "But to be back here playing with my team, I couldn't script it any better. ... This (award is just as much my teammates') as it is mine. I'm just very grateful and thankful, and I'll see you all on Friday night."
Clark is averaging 32 points and nine assists per game, both figures leading the nation. She also pulls down 7.3 rebounds per contest.
Her record point totals stand at 1,183 this season and 3,900 for her four-year career.
She is the first women's player to win multiple Naismith awards since UConn's Breanna Stewart captured three straight from 2014-16.
Bueckers, back after missing a season due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament, is contributing 22 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game for the Final Four-bound Huskies. She and UConn will oppose Clark and Iowa on Friday.
Watkins averaged 27.1 points, 7.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists, as she broke the Division I freshman record for scoring.
Brink logged 17.4 points, 11.9 rebounds, 2.8 assists and a nation-best 3.7 blocks per game.
-Field Level Media
Wednesday, 3 April 2024
12.3 MILLION: IOWA'S VICTORY OVER LSU IS THE MOST-WATCHED WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAME ON RECORD
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Caitlin Clark can claim another record — the most-watched women's college basketball game in history.
Iowa's 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA Tournament on Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN, according to Nielsen. That makes it one of the most-viewed games in any sport other than NFL football over the past year.
Iowa-LSU outdrew all but one of the five games in last year's NBA Finals, along with the clinching game of last year's World Series (11.48 million).
Clark scored 41 points as the Hawkeyes avenged last year’s loss to the Tigers in the national championship game.
The viewership surpassed the 11.84 million who watched the 1983 NCAA championship game between Southern California and Louisiana Tech. LSU coach Kim Mulkey played for Louisiana Tech and was matched up against USC great Cheryl Miller in that game, which the Trojans won 64-58.
It was also the most-watched men’s or women’s college basketball game ever on ESPN, more than doubling the prior largest audience.
According to ESPN, the 2002 women’s national championship game between UConn and Oklahoma had the old mark at 5.68 million. ESPN’s most-watched men’s game was the 2008 regular-season matchup between Duke and North Carolina, which drew 5.61 million.
Only one men's NCAA Tournament game this year had bigger viewership: North Carolina State's win over Duke on Sunday in the men's Elite Eight on CBS averaged 15.1 million.
According to Sports Media Watch, it was the most-viewed basketball game on ESPN since Game 7 of the 2018 Eastern Conference finals, when the Cleveland Cavaliers' victory over the Boston Celtics averaged 13.6 million.
UConn’s 80-73 win over Southern California, which was on after the Iowa game, was the second-most watched college game in ESPN history at 6.7 million. ABC had both regional finals on Sunday, with South Carolina averaging 3.1 million in its win over Oregon State and North Carolina State drawing 2.5 million against Texas.
Clark's four March Madness games on ESPN and ABC have averaged 6.83 million. Iowa will face UConn in Friday's second national semifinal on ESPN. The winner will face either South Carolina or North Carolina State on ABC on Sunday.
The Hawkeyes’ 89-68 win over Colorado in Saturday's regional semifinal averaged 6.9 million viewers on ABC.
Iowa's last five televised games have surpassed 3 million viewers, including the last three that have drawn at least 4.9 million.
The 60 women's tournament games are averaging 1.5 million, a 127% increase over last year.
LSU’s victory over UCLA on Saturday, which preceded the Iowa game, averaged 3.8 million, the second most-watched Sweet 16 game on record.
- JOE REEDY
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NCAA TOURNAMENT 2016: MARCH MADNESS NOMA BALAA
Kwa wapenzi wa Basketball duniani March Madness ni kitu cha kuangalia...March Madness ni kipindi ambapo shule za vyuo Marekani vinachuana vikali mwezi March...Sasa kilichotokea mwaka huu ni mambo ambayo hayakutegemewa kabisa...Kwanza, tuanze na timu ya shule ya wasongo darasani ya Yale...
Yale wamewatoa wakali Baylor ambao ni namba 5 kwa ukali...Pili, Wichita State ambao karibu wasicheze wamewatoa wakali Arizona ambao ni namba 6 kwa ukali...Tatu, Arkansas-Little Rock ambao wamechukua kocha wa mwaka wa kwanza wamewatoa namba 5 Purdue...
Nne, namba 15 Middle Tennessee wamewatoa namba 2 Michigan State ambao ndio walikuwa wanatarajiwa kufika mbali sana dah...Imekuwa kali ya mwaka huu....Tano, Syracuse katimu ambao hata kasingekuwa ndani ya michuano ya NCAA wamewachapa vibaya Dayton na MTSU na kutinga 16 bora...
Sita, Iowa walichapa Temple ambao wazuri tu...Saba, Hawaii nao kwa mara ya kwanza wamechida game ya NCAA...Ngoja niishie hapo hebu pata habari zaidi kwa kubofya hapa.
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