Iowa women's basketball finds its footing after Caitlin Clark era
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Losing Caitlin Clark was never going to be easy. Losing Clark and fellow starters Kate Martin, Gabbie Marshall and Molly Davis? Well, you can see why Iowa has struggled this season.
But Sunday’s win over USC is the kind of game that can salvage a season — and propel the Hawkeyes back to the top of the game.
“Today really showed us how good we can be. That we can win and we can stay in any game, with any team. That we're really good,” Addison O’Grady, one of the few carryovers from the Iowa teams that made it to the national championship the last two years, said.
“Now we can fully believe it, because we have a win against a really, really good team.”
That’s not to say Iowa will make another deep run in the NCAA tournament. Currently 12th in the Big Ten, with games still left at Minnesota, at Nebraska, at Ohio State and against top-ranked UCLA, the Hawkeyes have work to do just to make the NCAA tournament.
Iowa is building for the future, however, and a strong finish this year brings that future that much closer.
